Chapter 17 Chapter 7 Blue Scorpion

Xu Anda swallowed, and said: "Okay, since the uncle insists on going, I will lead the uncle there." Situ Tianzuo said with a smile: "We are all fighting people, dealing with zombies all day long, can a ghost village scare us?" At that moment, the four of them galloped towards the southeast on their horsewhip camels.He ran until the moon was in the middle of the sky, and then he vaguely saw the appearance of a village in the distance.A layer of mist gathered around the village, and the shadows seemed to be floating in the dark night.There was still more than a mile away from the village, Situ Tianzuo reined in the horse and stopped immediately.The other three reined in their horses and listened to his instructions.

Situ Tianzuo said in a low voice: "Although there may not be ghosts in Efang Village, there is a high possibility that the enemy is ambushing. It is very inconvenient for us to ride in now. It is better to leave the horses here, and it will be easier for us to go in lightly. Everyone agrees. How about next?" The other three looked at each other and nodded in agreement. Situ Tianzuo and Xiao Tie led the way, followed by Xu Anda and Xiao Li. The four of them each held weapons and walked slowly towards Efang Village.When they walked up to Efang Village, they were secretly startled.At a glance, Efang Village seems to be boundless, covering an area of ​​about a thousand mu.Looking from the entrance of the village, there are broken walls and ruins everywhere, and every wall is thick and high. Although it is already crumbling, you can still imagine the original grandeur from the scale of the building.

Xiao Tie said in a low voice: "Uncle Situ, is this Efang Village the Afang Palace built by Qin Shihuang back then?" Situ Tianzuo nodded and said in a low voice: "Yes, this must be the Afang Palace built by Qin Shihuang. Back then, after Qin Shihuang unified the six kingdoms, the national power became stronger and the population of the capital Xianyang increased. In the 35th year of the first emperor, in The imperial palace began to be built in the Shanglin Garden south of the Weihe River, which is the Afang Palace. Due to the huge project, it is said that only one front hall was built during the reign of the First Emperor. According to "Historical Records The Chronicle of Qin Shihuang", "The front hall Afang is five hundred steps from east to west. , Fifty feet from north to south, ten thousand people can sit on the top, Wuzhang flags can be built on the bottom, and the Zhou Chi is a pavilion road, from His Royal Highness to Nanshan, and the top of Nanshan is considered a que, which is a complex road, crossing the Weiwei from Afang, which belongs to Xianyang. It is conceivable that its scale is huge, and it is a huge waste of money and people.

"After the death of Qin Shihuang, Qin II Hu Hai continued to build. The poet Du Mu of the Tang Dynasty wrote in "A Fang Gong Fu": "The pressure is more than three hundred miles, and the sky is isolated. The Lishan Mountain is built in the north and turns west, and goes straight to Xianyang. Erchuan Rongrong , Flowing into the palace wall. Five steps to the first floor, ten steps to one pavilion; "After Chu King Xiang Yu's army entered the pass, they turned their hatred on things and set fire to the Efang Palace and all the ancillary buildings, turning them into ashes. As a result, only the ruins of the Afang Palace remained."

Xiao Tie said in a low voice: "Qin Shi Huang built the imperial mausoleum and recruited hundreds of thousands of husbands. Presumably, when the Efang Palace was built, many people must have suffered. There may be tens of thousands of innocent people buried under the ruins. Corpse." Situ Tianzuo sighed lowly, and said: "Once the master is completed, all bones will be destroyed, and this palace will also be completely destroyed." Before he finished speaking, he suddenly heard a faint sigh from not far away.The sigh was very soft, but it was horrifying to the ears of the four people.

Xu Anda's expression changed drastically, and he hastily grasped the single knife in his hand.How could there be sighs in this barren, ghost village-like Efang Village? After a sigh, there was a dead silence all around again. The four of them looked at each other in blank dismay.After a while, Xiao Tie slowly walked in the direction of the sound—a broken wall and walked over.Situ Tianzuo was worried about Xiaotie's safety, so he immediately followed. The cold moonlight slanted down on the broken wall, behind which was pitch black.That mournful sigh came from behind this broken wall.

Xiao Tie walked over step by step, and his footsteps landed on the ground without making a sound.But his heart was beating like a drum, "thumping, pounding, pounding".Finally came to the side of the broken wall, the distance of these few steps seemed to take a long time. Xiao Tie raised his head to look at the broken wall and folded it with fire, the scene in front of him almost suffocated him.I saw a person standing there quietly in the corner.The person's body could not be seen, only half of the red shoe was visible. Those shoes are as red as blood! The cold moonlight, the desolate Efang Village, the red shoes that are as red as blood...all these bring a breath of death to this mysterious village, a breath of death from the nether world.This breath made Xiao Tie and Situ Tianzuo almost breathless.

Who is this man in the red shoes?Why stand silently behind crumbling walls? Xiao Tie gritted his teeth and wanted to step up.Suddenly, behind the broken wall, a black figure rushed over with a whoosh. The black shadow was in mid-air, and he opened his mouth to bite Xiao Tie, his snow-white teeth shone with a strange coldness under the moonlight. Situ Tianzuo yelled, "Be careful!" Before Xiaotie could answer, the gust of wind rushed towards him.The chain hammer in Xiaotie's right hand was struck out abruptly, and the black shadow was sent flying in one blow.The black shadow let out a scream, and slammed into the broken wall with a "slap", his brains burst and blood stains splashed everywhere on the broken wall.It was only then that Xiao Tie realized that it was a wild cat that jumped at him just now.

Xiao Tie looked at the half of the red shoe, but the man was still motionless. Xiao Tie gritted his teeth and shouted loudly: "Where is my friend? Come out quickly. If you don't come out again, I will recognize you, but my chain hammer will not recognize you!" The man remained motionless. Xiao Tie and Situ Tianzuo secretly wondered, thinking: Did this person really not hear?Or as Xu Anda said, this is not a human but a ghost?Even if you are a ghost, I will beat you back to your original form today. Xiao Tie clasped the chain hammer tightly with his left hand, Situ Tianzuo held a single knife, and the two slowly moved behind the wall.

Both of them were stunned, there was only a red shoe standing alone in the corner before meeting, and there was no one behind that wall at all! Situ Tianzuo and Xiao Tie looked at each other, and they were even more puzzled: there was no one behind the broken wall, so where did that strange sigh come from? Xiao Tie said in a low voice: "Uncle Situ, I think something is wrong here." Situ Tianzuo said: "I also feel a little gloomy here, like entering a tomb." The two were talking in a low voice when suddenly there was a shake behind them.Xiao Tie looked up and yelled: "No!" He grabbed Situ Tianzuo's arm and jumped out, only to hear a "boom", the broken wall fell down, and there was a cloud of dust on the ground. flying.

Xiao Tie and Situ Tianzuo couldn't help but their faces changed. Situ Tianzuo thought to himself: Fortunately, Xiao Tieyan is quick, otherwise he would have buried his body here today. Xiao Tie still held the bloody red shoe in his hand and looked at it carefully.A scorpion was embroidered with blue silk thread on the red shoe. Situ Tianzuo took a closer look and couldn't help shouting: "This shoe is worn by a dead person, throw it away!" Hearing this, Xiao Tie threw the red shoes on the ground with a flick of his hand. Situ Tianzuo picked up Xiaotie's hand, looked at it, and said, "Your hand isn't hurt, is it?" Xiao Tieqi said: "What kind of injury? My hand is fine." Situ Tianzuo let out a long breath and said, "It's good that you're not injured." Xiao Tie wondered, "What? Is there something weird in this shoe?" Situ Tianzuo nodded and said, "You don't know, it's a poisonous shoe." Xiao Tieqi said: "Poisoned shoes?" Situ Tianzuo nodded and said: "This shoe is made by the natives of the Miao nationality in Yunnan. The natives of the Miao nationality in Yunnan are proficient in a kind of voodoo. They are good at mixing various poisons together to make highly poisonous things, which are called voodoo. The Miao area is also called "Grass Ghost". According to legend, Gu generally attaches itself to women and harms others. Those so-called women with Gu are called "Grass Ghosts". Almost all Miao people believe in Gu art. In fact, this kind of daunting The Gu is not inherited from the Miao people's ancestors. "Gu art has been widely circulated in the Jiangnan area in ancient China. At first, Gu refers to insects born in containers. Later, moths born after grain decay, and poisonous insects born from other things are also called Gu. "The ancients believed that Gu is mysterious and extremely poisonous, so it is also called poison Gu. People who are poisoned by Gu are like being confused by ghosts, and their minds are confused. Most of the Gu insects mentioned by people in the pre-Qin period refer to various mysterious poisonous insects in the world." Xiaotie said: "I've heard of this kind of Gu technique, but what does it have to do with this shoe? Could it be that this shoe was also bewitched?" Situ Tianzuo nodded and said, "Exactly." Xiao Tie was puzzled.Seeing that he didn't believe it, Situ Tianzuo immediately took out a yellow bamboo tube from his pocket, the whole bamboo tube was made of a moso bamboo node.Situ Tianzuo opened the lid of the bamboo tube, walked up to the red shoes, and sprayed the inside of the shoes, a stream of white powder sprayed into the shoes.Not long after, there was a rustling sound, and a scorpion with a long thumb crawled out of the red shoe.The big scorpion is covered in faint blue, which is very different from ordinary scorpions, and looks extremely gorgeous.The big scorpion seemed to be very afraid of the white powder, and quickly hid in a place where there was no white powder.But it didn't run away, but stood proudly aside, the two big turtles stood upright, looking extremely mighty. Xiao Tie was shocked.If Master Situ hadn't reminded him just now, he might have been stung by a blue scorpion at this moment.This blue scorpion is so weird, it must be poisonous. Seeing the two staring at it, the blue scorpion showed no fear. Xiao Tie felt both strange and extremely interesting.Situ Tianzuo looked solemn, as if facing a formidable enemy. Lan Xiezi saw that the two were not moving, so he ran after them with four pairs of legs.Situ Tianzuo's expression became even more tense, and his right hand tightly held the saber.Xiao Tie was very strange on the side, looking at his uncle's posture, he seemed to be competing with a martial arts master, it was really weird.Is this cute blue scorpion really so powerful?Situ Tianzuo held a single saber and slowly backed away.Xiao Tie didn't know why, so he had to follow Situ Tianzuo to retreat slowly. Blue Scorpion chased after him for a while, then stopped suddenly. Xiao Tie was about to ask his uncle why he was so afraid of the blue scorpion when he suddenly heard Situ Tianzuo yelling, "Be careful." With a sound of "Dang", it seemed that something hit Situ Tianzuo's single sword. Situ Tianzuo pulled Xiao Tie and retreated a few feet away. At this time, Xiao Tie had already seen clearly that it was the blue scorpion that hit his master uncle Situ Tianzuo's sword, and he couldn't help being shocked.This "cute" blue scorpion bumped into the single knife, and it made the sound of gold and iron striking each other.Thinking of it, I couldn't help being deeply shocked. Blue Scorpion missed a hit, turned around slowly, and walked away resentfully. Xiao Tie was upset, and was about to turn around to chase, but was stopped by Situ Tianzuo: "I can't chase." Xiao Tie looked at Situ Tianzuo with a puzzled look on his face. Situ Tianzuo said slowly: "This is only the Scorpion King, he cannot be chased." Xiao Tie said angrily, "We really can't beat it?" Situ Tianzuo shook his head and said, "It's the first time I've seen this kind of blue scorpion. I've only heard about it from your grandfather before. I never imagined that there is such a weird scorpion in the world. We can't fight it. It is extremely poisonous, but also has a body like iron, and advances and retreats like electricity. We can't beat it, and if we are not careful, we will be killed by it." Xiao Tie snorted and said, "Is there really nothing in this world that can restrain it?" Situ Tianzuo looked at the blue scorpion that was gradually going away, and said slowly: "There is, but that kind of thing is hard to come by." Xiao Tie looked at the majestic Efang Village in the night, and a sense of fear involuntarily grew in his heart.When I first came out of the rivers and lakes, I thought that with my martial arts, I could travel all over the world and be invincible. Who would have thought that in this wasteland of Longhugang, I first encountered a dark night monster that plucked people's hearts and moved like electricity, and came to this Efang village. , and met the extremely poisonous blue scorpion with a body like iron, and bound his hands and feet everywhere. Only then did he realize that things in the world do not always go as he wishes.