Chapter 47 self-flowing boat

"Blood needles to drive away crazy corpses? Is it any different from driving away corpses?" Qin Shengsheng was curious and quick-talking. Pei Sheng cleared his throat, as if he was going to make a long narrative: "Three years ago, Baizao Lake in southern Chu was infested with water corpses, and Yunyangshan Wuzhuo Taoist Temple was there to eliminate the harm for the people, and Taoist Master Hongde was sent to take his disciples to lock it up. The corpse was turned into ashes, and the soul was sent into reincarnation. At that time, I made the shackles for them, and assisted them in setting up a bag of "Hundred Hedging Field" to deal with the water corpse. After the incident, the people around invited wine to express their thanks. When I was intoxicated, I revealed to me the origin of the Yan family's unique skill of exorcising corpses."

Pei Sheng cleared his throat again: "The ancestor of the Yan family is an extremely smart person with extraordinary memory ability. Originally, with this ability, he would definitely be able to gain an advantage over high-ranking officials, but because of his poor family, he had no money to study. Some, but they can only write tombstones and elegiac couplets for others, so they can work in the coffin shop to make ends meet. One day he went to the old temple outside the city to decorate the mourning hall for customers. Temple. Before the decoration started after entering the temple, two people broke in from outside the door, one was dressed as a Taoist priest, and the other was dressed in a weird way. It was previously considered to be a demon cult by the Central Plains). After entering the door, the two used their skills to fight each other with corpses. The Taoist priest successively cast spells with cinnabar charms, gold sand charms, and blood charms to drive the corpses. Golden needles and blood-line golden needles face each other. What they implement is actually the triple realm of exorcising corpses. Those driven by cinnabar charms and golden needles are living corpses, those driven by golden sand charms and red-line golden needles are murderous corpses, and those driven by blood charms and blood-line golden needles are Crazy Corpse. The third layer of blood talisman and blood thread golden needle inject the heart and blood energy of the caster himself. In fact, they are already fighting with the caster's inner strength. This kind of fighting is often a lose-lose. Two hours later, the old temple house collapsed, the coffin in the temple was broken into pieces, and the two men also had heart failure, and there was no hope of turning around. When they were dying, in order not to lose their unique skills, they passed on to However, when the two of them were dying at that time, they could not teach them clearly. Although the ancestor of the Yan family was smart and had an extraordinary memory, he only memorized a skill of the Taoist cinnabar talisman and the gold needle and blood of the Shamo Venerable. There are two skills of threading and golden needles, and there are still omissions in each of them, and they cannot be used alone. Later, the ancestor of the Yan family used cinnabar charms and golden needles in combination, and this complemented each other. Although most of the corpses are rotten and scorched corpses, their movements are powerful and fast, and their faces are fierce. This should be injected with the effort and blood of the corpse exorcisers. If the inference is correct, the gold needles inserted on the heads of these corpses must have been pierced with The blood line, this blood line is made by cutting the life pattern on the left palm of the exorcist, and dyed it with the blood of the palm. But the beauty of the blood line golden needle does not lie in this. It is said that the highest level should be to drive away the mad corpse. This technique has never appeared in the rivers and lakes, and it is estimated that it has been lost."

Pei Sheng said that the skill of fighting corpses first appeared in Shang Dynasty, but few people could witness the situation of fighting corpses at that time, let alone record the scene of fighting corpses.Liu Xiu from the Song Dynasty was a clerk in the yamen, and he followed Wu Zuo to record various autopsy results, and later compiled "Nongguixuan Transcripts" to be handed down to the world.In the "Records of Nongguixuan", there is a paragraph of marginal text: "The coffin is completely broken, the corpse is damaged, and the flesh and blood fall, but there is no blood. It is suspected that the corpses are fighting each other. Everyone denounces lies." This paragraph may be the only one in history about fighting corpses. written records.

Qi Junyuan listened to Pei Sheng's narration, but secretly observed the mad woman Ni Daohua.Although Ni Daohua always had a dazed and dull expression, Qi Junyuan still noticed that her eyes rolled quickly twice. "I think it should be such a situation. Some of the Yan family's children escaped the extermination of the Shangdeyuan clan because they drove the corpses away. When they came back, they saw such a miserable appearance and found out who the enemy was, so they drove the crazy corpses away. Go and take revenge." Qin Shengsheng's inference should be the most reasonable.

"It's not the disciple, but Yan Jialing's head, which is equivalent to the head of other sects. The techniques and incantations of the blood needle to drive away mad corpses are only passed on to the bell head, and ordinary disciples can only drive away living corpses." Pei Sheng corrected. "Looking at the scale of the situation, it seems that they have arrived as family members, but the purpose may not be just revenge. Few of the people who died tragically in Shangdeyuan were young and strong men, and they must have been captured. The bell drove the mad corpses into the wild, probably I want to rush to save people." Qi Junyuan added.

"Then what should we do?" Tang Sanniang also regarded Qi Junyuan as the person in charge at some point. "Of course we should follow along. Didn't you have completed the order of 'Chaos Ming Zhang'? Brother Fan's 'Lu Mang Jian' has also failed to complete. These tasks are all related to Shangdeyuan. And this Ni Daohua, She also clamored to find her father, following those wild corpses should be able to find clues. So following the past may solve all these things together. But..." Qi Junyuan paused at this point. As soon as these two words came out, the end of Ni Daohua's thick eyebrows twitched violently, and the others also had strange colors floating across their faces.

"However, things that are taken for granted are often things that others have in mind. As assassins, we must not act in accordance with conventional thinking. Just imagine, we will not be the only ones who find such a large group of corpses walking wildly. I am afraid that those who follow them There are already quite a few of them. It is likely to include those who want to silence us but have not succeeded, or this itself is a pocket controlled by those people, waiting for us to send it in." No one spoke because they had never thought of the possibilities Qi Junyuan mentioned before.

"Boater, work hard. Before it's completely dark, go forward for a few miles, and then find a place to stop on the other side." This was Qi Junyuan's final decision. "Okay, okay, let's go. If I work harder, I might find a big port to rely on." Qi Junyuan, the boatman, was very happy with his decision.This is human nature. Anyone who sees such a group of carrion corpses running wildly wants to leave as quickly as possible. The boat went forward for a while, although it did not find the pier, but found a shoal at the bend of the river, where the boat could be stopped.It's just that here is a bend in the water flow, and there are silted shoals as obstacles.Therefore, the current will be much more turbulent, and the boat needs to be firmly fixed.

Same as previous nights, the women rest in the cabin, and the men find a place to rest on the shore.They are all men who travel the rivers and lakes and travel north and south, and they can endure the night where they can stand.Qi Junyuan pulled Fan Xiaotian to rest under a stone wall far away from the river. This place was not comfortable, but Fan Xiaotian was too embarrassed to refuse Qi Junyuan's kindness. But this night, he couldn't bear it until midnight, and something happened just after he fell asleep.The firmly fixed boat drifted away, whether it was washed away by the current or someone let it go, at least Qi Junyuan had no way of knowing.

Wang Yanba was half lying on a big rock by the river, not falling asleep, just closing his eyes to rest his mind, so he heard a few strange noises.When he realized something was happening and opened his eyes and sat up suddenly, the boat had just drifted a few steps away.So he stood up quickly, accelerated his run-up in a short distance, jumped across the water with one long step, jumped onto the stern of the boat, and then used the boat pole to try to push the boat back. Pei Sheng also noticed the situation, he was a little later than Wang Yanba, and the boat had already moved a certain distance when he got up.But he sprinted across the shallows and managed to jump into the boat.

It was also because Pei Sheng jumped onto the boat that the boat shook violently.After all, Wang Yanba was not a boatman, he almost threw away the penny in his hand, he hurriedly supported the reed with one hand to stabilize his body.After he stabilized his body completely, he wanted to turn the bamboo pole to push the boat back, but was blocked by Pei Sheng who was standing in front of him.After such a panic and delay, the boat had already drifted into the flow channel and drifted forward quickly. The mute found that the boat was drifting away because Poor Tang yelled twice.In the past few days, Poor Tang has been getting together with the mad woman Ni Daohua, perhaps animals with similar intelligence are easier to get close to.The boat moved suddenly, and it was getting farther and farther away from the owner. It was quite normal for Qiongtang to make noises. The mute jumped straight into the water from the branch of the big tree where he rested.Mountain climbing and swimming are his innate talents. Even if the depth of the water entry is not enough, he can still use ingenious postures to let his body quickly rush a long distance with the help of jumping power. Poor Tang climbed to the rear plank of the boat, flicked his head, and threw a tying cable coiled at the stern into the river.When the loop of rope was about to fall into the water, it bit the end.At this time, the mute who came out of the water and made a few quick strokes happened to grab the other end of the rope. Under Qiongtang's pull, he alternately climbed and pulled with both hands, seeing that he could get on the boat with a few more strokes. When the mute was only three or four bows away from the stern (measured by an ordinary bow), there suddenly appeared a downhill rapid ahead.The dumb climbed faster and could reach the stern of the boat.So he stretched out his arm decisively, and his fingers touched the bottom of the stern. At this moment, the hull of the ship shook violently, and then violently swayed from side to side, as if falling down a step.At the same time, the rope in the mute's hand lost its strength, and his body was suddenly washed away by the rapid current at the bottom of the boat.Immediately next to him, there was a big splash of water. Before the splash subsided, a tiger-like head emerged from the water.It seems that the vibration of the ship's hull just now threw Poor Tang off the boat, no wonder the rope in the mute's hand lost its strength. Although they were both in the rapids, it was impossible for Dumb and Poor Tang to glide with the current as fast as a boat. They could only watch helplessly as the distance between the boat and themselves grew farther and farther, and finally disappeared into the darkness. The mute knew that he couldn't go straight ahead with the rapids like this, and it was meaningless to stay in the water if he couldn't catch up with the boat.So I used my hands and feet at the same time to adjust the direction of my drifting, and gradually approached the opposite river bank.Qiongtang was still biting the rope, so that the dumb man who was born with supernatural power also drove Qiongtang when he adjusted his direction, making him follow closely behind him and approach the opposite shore.