Chapter 14 Chapter Thirteen A Few Fellow Travelers

We got into a wood again.I saw fallen leaves all over the ground, but the soil under these fallen leaves was very fertile, and when one foot fell, it sank downward with a little force.But after walking for a while, I couldn't help but feel a strange feeling. This mountain forest seemed to be very different from the woodlands I had walked through before.I don't know if it's because of my own psychological reasons, or if it's true, I feel very depressed when I come in, and feel that most of the vegetation here is withered, and only a small part of the towering trees look strong and tall.

"It's too difficult for you to drive the corpse this way. If the corpse gets stuck in the mud, it will be troublesome." Yu Qiuzhen asked. "The corpse will never sink into the mud." Jiao Kui said. "Will you wear special shoes for jumping corpses?" Old Tofu seemed very curious about this matter. Jiao Kui turned around sharply, and turned to Lao Tofu with a grim expression: "Have you ever seen a corpse that can sink into water? There is no such reason to talk about a corpse with common sense." "If you can't do it, you can't do it. Why are you so fierce?" Old Tofu murmured to himself in a low voice.

Along the way, Jiao Kui swept the fallen leaves on the ground with his feet while walking, searching carefully.Yu Qiuzhen next to him also seemed to be doing his best to help him find the Tonggong for the Soul Requiem.But I always feel that Yu Qiuzhen is pretending, and the gong must be hidden on him.With this suspicion, I naturally would not take the time to do this, but just pretended to follow behind to find a way. In this way, we headed west along the route Jiao Kui had come to, until the afternoon.Naturally, the soul gong was not found, but we found that it was far away from the south where the spring should be located.Looking at the front again, there is another steep mountain lying there, like a tall raised wall.

If you want to go around the mountain, you have to pass a steep cliff, and the narrow mountain road is only one meter wide at most, which is frightening to watch.But fortunately, this is not the only way to pass the mountain, because according to Jiao Kui, there is a huge cave in the mountain. We followed Jiao Kui to the entrance of the cave, and Yu Qiuzhen asked, "Is this the cave you mentioned?" Jiao Kui nodded: "That's right, it's here. There is a corpse inn through the cave. That Taoist priest is really brave. He pretended to be a corpse in the inn last night. When I was eating, he crawled out of the coffin and stole it." dead body."

Yu Qiuzhen thought for a while, and asked, "I don't understand something, and I want to ask Brother Jiao." Before Jiao Kui could respond, Yu Qiuzhen said straightforwardly, "As far as I know, Yin-watching magicians don't know how to rush Corpse surgery, he probably doesn't have the ability to exorcise corpses. But I saw yesterday that the Taoist priest's ability may not be inferior to yours. Moreover, if there is no special accident, the yin warlock will never and dare not hurt the corpse exorcist. It is an ancient rule. So, I think there are other secrets in this matter?"

Jiao Kui seemed to be stopped by the question, he held his head up and thought for a long time before he said, "Isn't that person a yin-watcher?" "Whether it is true or not, this matter will not be as simple as we thought at first, we still have to be mentally prepared. I think there may be big troubles in the future." Yu Qiuzhen said with a frown. Hearing this, Jiao Kui sighed: "'Hurting corpses, driving corpses, one step forward, the future is unknown.' The old man said so, and it is absolutely reasonable. The mortician in our place can never do this job more than One hundred, more than one hundred, a normal person would have a corpse smell. But I... oh, I don’t know how many hundreds of corpses have been chased away, and I have also suppressed fraudulent corpses. It will be a matter of time before I run into trouble. No Thinking about it, this time it actually happened."

"That's not necessarily the case. The matter is not yet conclusive. It's too early to say this now. But I think we must be more careful now." Yu Qiuzhen said again. Without waiting for Jiao Kui to answer, Ma Yifei said in a rough voice: "I said it is too early for you to discuss this issue, we still have business to do. Yu Qiuzhen, I warn you, don't think we are fools. " Yu Qiuzhen snorted coldly, and said, "Do you think this matter has nothing to do with you? I don't think so. Not only with you, I think it has something to do with all of you. If something big happens in Wuliang Mountain, none of us can escape from it alone. , it is even more impossible for you to have the opportunity to complete your so-called mission."

"Who are you bluffing? There are a lot of weird things here, to tell you the truth, I'm afraid, we won't come." Ma Yifei said with eyebrows slanted. "Of course you are not afraid, how courageous you are. However, anyone with a brain should understand that there are too many strange things in this mountain. Since we met, in the short few days since we met, which day is calm , either this or that. All of this may not be a coincidence." "Are you bewitching people with your demonic words?" Ma Yifei said. "You don't have to believe it, just pretend that I never said that." Yu Qiuzhen didn't say anything, and walked into the cave silently.Jiao Kui rolled his eyes, followed immediately, and Yu Qiuzhen said a few words in his ear.Upon hearing this, Yu Qiuzhen immediately stopped in his tracks, and asked with an exaggerated expression, "Why didn't you tell me about this earlier?"

"I don't know, I thought it was an ordinary thing." Jiao Kui seemed a little anxious. Yu Qiuzhen strode towards us again and said, "Let's go back quickly, there is still time to leave." "What, go back? How to go back? Where to go back? Are you out of your mind?" Ma Yifei frowned and asked. Qin Hai said calmly, "Daoist Yu, what did you remember?" "Anyway, believe me, that's right. It's not suitable to stay here for a long time. You must go out immediately. If you miss the opportunity, we will all be buried here." Yu Qiuzhen's expression was unusually serious, it didn't look like an act, but this aroused our curiosity.So, Lao Doufu asked: "If there is anything, you can just say it. It's all over, is there any need to hide it from us?"

"Okay, I won't hide it from everyone. Brother Jiao told me something just now. He was on the way here. He saw someone setting up an altar to perform a ritual. According to the way the ceremony was carried out, it should be someone who practiced forbidden arts. Sacrificing evil gods with the method of the five elements. I once heard from my master that the mountain spirit is a calamity every seventy-two years. The method is that the evil-eyed Taoist in the mountain is praying for the help of the evil god to prevent the mountain spirit from harassing them. Let’s think about what happened. First, Li Hao wanted to dig treasures, but he met the mountain spirit in the old dragon’s lair. Later , there is a huge strange sound in the forest at night, which is obviously not the sound that ordinary creatures can make. And that woman, I am sure, she is a ghost beast master, except for this kind of person, no one can raise such a sound. Huge centipede, she asked us to kill her for no reason, maybe because she knew that it would be difficult for her to survive this catastrophe, and it would be better to die at our hands than to be injured by the old dragon. This Several things can be connected together, do you think I'm talking nonsense?"

"It seems to make sense. But since the woman knew the danger in advance, but didn't run away, and waited to die here, can it be justified?" Qin Hai asked back. "It's not that she doesn't want to leave, but because she can't leave at all. Once the ghost beast master leaves her sphere of influence, she will be backlashed by the voodoo she raises. She herself said that she has been here for nearly sixty years , that is to say, she may not know the theory of crossing the catastrophe when she first entered, and when she knows it, she will not be able to go out again, unless..." At this point, Yu Qiuzhen paused. "Unless something..." I was fascinated and asked subconsciously. "The ghost beast master is the same as the drowned water ghost. She needs to find a substitute. As long as she can transfer the voodoo she raises to another person, she can leave safely." Yu Qiuzhen said. I suddenly realized: "No wonder she said a lot of irrelevant things to us. She wants to win our sympathy, take the opportunity to find a replacement for her from us, and then escape from here. Let us kill her, it should be just a backup plan .” "Okay, Brother Bing, I think you have the talent to be a policeman." Old Tofu joked. "It's up to this point, whether you believe it or not, I won't go any further. I want to leave this damned place." Yu Qiuzhen said loudly. "You fucking come and show me?" Ma Yifei no longer concealed his rudeness, took out the old-fashioned shotgun with the barrel sawed off from the backpack behind him, and pointed it at Yu Qiuzhen. "Even if you kill me, I won't stay in the mountains on the day when the old dragon crosses the catastrophe." After saying that, Yu Qiuzhen turned around and left. I clearly saw Ma Yifei raised his shotgun to his back, before I could say a word, there was a soft bang, and a cold light flashed, and a gleaming throwing knife was inserted into the shotgun's mouth.This came so suddenly, Ma Yifei didn't expect it at all, the shotgun fell to the ground with a jolt all over his body. We looked in the direction of the flying knife, and saw a strangely dressed man standing under a tree more than ten meters away from us. The pair of eyes are big and round, staring at us closely. Without hesitation, Ma Yifei took out the pistol on his back and wanted to shoot the man.But the speed of the other party was faster than him, so Ma Yifei took out the gun, the other party raised his hand, and with a snap, the clothes on Ma Yifei's heart suddenly overflowed with dust. When he looked closely, it turned out to be a yellowish-brown clod . If the person threw a throwing knife instead of mud, Ma Yifei would be a corpse at this moment.Ma Yifei still knew what was good and bad, he didn't dare to act rashly, and put the pistol back into his waist obediently. Looking at the other party again, his body flashed, and he hid behind the tree.Obviously, he didn't want to have any contact with us.This should be the aborigines in the mountains. Of course, it is not ordinary people who can survive here. We dare not rush forward to disturb them.But Yu Qiuzhen stopped, looked carefully at the direction where the man was standing for a long time, and then asked Jiao Kui, "Is this man the Taoist priest who stole the corpse?" Jiao Kui said: "Impossible. Although the Taoist priest's kung fu is good, he is not up to this level. When this throwing knife is shot, it really hits wherever it is. It's amazing, it's really amazing." Ma Yifei's face was livid, he lit a cigarette without saying a word, and smoked sullenly. "You go. It seems that no one here can touch you." Qin Hai finally bowed his head to reality, and began to mobilize Yu Qiuzhen to leave. "I want to leave, but just now I thought of another problem. I am worried that I will be poisoned by a woman. I can't cross it by myself." "We can't help you with that. We can't stop you from leaving, but you can't force us to go back either, can you?" "That's true. I thought about it, but I still don't want to leave. If everyone is willing to retreat with me, that would be great." Yu Qiuzhen said. "Hmm. I think we'd better leave this place right away, or we'll be in big trouble." Jiao Kui said. "Where's your soul gong? Don't you want it?" Qin Hai asked. "The gong is a small matter. On the day when the old dragon crosses the catastrophe, this mountain will be sealed. At that time, all kinds of monsters and ghosts will be on the road, waiting for us to come to our door. I don't want to go there, so..." Jiao Kui obviously He was afraid, he would rather not have a corpse than leave here.I quietly glanced at Jia Xiaobing, and saw that he was so anxious that he was about to cry, but he knew that he couldn't keep any of these people by himself.We all have a retreat, and we can all exit Wuliang Mountain at this time. Only he must stay here, that is the only hope to save his mother's life.Once she leaves, it means that her mother will eventually die.I sighed in my heart and scratched my head for him. "Who is that guy who shoots the knife? He's really capable, but he shouldn't have any ill intentions towards us." Qin Hai said, staring at the invisible tree. "It might be some evil-eyed Taoist. It's better for us to provoke less. I said, don't waste time, let's withdraw." Yu Qiuzhen said. At this time, Qin Hai said: "If the matter is not finished, no one can expect to get out, and he will not be able to get out." He has a serious expression, and his left hand is pressing the pistol in his waist, which is a sign before he draws the gun. I didn't expect Qin Hai to stand up and stop Yu Qiuzhen. This was beyond my expectation, because in my mind, Qin Hai was not as rude and greedy as Ma Yifei.Faced with such a danger, the allure of money is not the most important thing, but he is the one who stops Yu Qiuzhen.Not only did he not agree with Qiuzhen to leave, but he even refused to let us leave. What is this man thinking?It's really unpredictable. Jiao Kui ignored this set: "You can control others, but you can't control me. If I want to leave, I will leave, and if I want to stay, I will stay. Can you do anything to me?" "Of course I can't do anything to you. If you want to go, please go." Qin Hai's attitude made Jiao Kui a little puzzled, and finally he said: "No matter what, everyone has helped me, and this kindness is always in my heart. If there is a chance to see me again in the future, I will invite you to drink. "After that, he turned to leave.Qin Hai was really nice. He took a package, put some water and food in it, and handed it to Jiao Kui. Jiao Kui didn't refuse, leaned on his body, turned around and left.After a while, he disappeared into the forest. "Old Qin, what are your plans? I originally wanted to leave first and come back after peace. Anyway, Treasure is not afraid that it will run away by itself." Ma Yifei also didn't understand Qin Hai's decision. "Since you're here, don't leave until you find something. Others will be scared away with just a word, so what can you do if you have the guts? There are large creatures in the old dragon's den, but they have no direct connection with us. I It’s still the same sentence, do a good job of guarding against people, and that’s it.” "It's best if you don't believe me." Yu Qiuzhen obviously didn't want to go any further. "If you really want to leave, we can't stop you. With people with such high martial arts as your backing, we can't do anything about it. However, you have to figure out one thing, if you are allowed to leave, can you exit this place safely? Shan, but it is still an unknown. Besides, even if you can go out, can the people from the Li family let you go? At that scene, people from the public security department must have intervened. So many people died, but you are missing, I think, This may not be beneficial to you." Qin Hai's analysis is not unreasonable. "But Ma Yifei wasn't there, and if I'm unlucky, I can't be the only one." Yu Qiuzhen obviously lost his momentum. "You go. I want to make a bet with you to see whether you will go out first, or we will go out first." Qin Hai said slightly mockingly. Yu Qiuzhen was completely speechless.In fact, everyone knows in their hearts that if you go forward, the future will be unpredictable at best, but if you go back the same way, it is the most dangerous, especially if you are alone, the risk factor is even higher.After weighing it over and over again, Yu Qiuzhen finally sighed and said, "Let's stay together. I will do my best to help you, but I also have a request." "Tell me." Looking at Qin Hai's expression, he knew that Yu Qiuzhen's answer had long been expected. "We must treat each other with sincerity. I will spare no effort to help you, and you can't just treat me as a tool. Everyone is not a fool. The current situation is special. Only by working together can we tide over the difficulties, otherwise..." Qin Hai patted him hard on the shoulder and said with a smile: "Brother, do you still need to say this? Of course we all understand the truth. Don't worry, no matter what kind of situation we encounter, we can't give up on each other, and we must stay together." Don't give up, or you will be hit by thunder." To be honest, I don't believe what Qin Hai says now.From the looks of it, Yu Qiuzhen didn't believe it either, but he was helpless. "By the way, Daoist Yu, you should hand over that gong. It's all up to this point, and it's useless for you to keep it." Qin Hai said with a slight sneer on our way to the entrance of the cave. Yu Qiuzhen sighed again, took out a copper gong with a wooden edge about the size of a human face from his Taoist robe, and said, "It seems that you already knew about it." "Only Jiao Kui's kind of vulgar don't know." Qin Hai took the gong and looked inside and out, "What's the use of this thing?" "From the name, you should know what it can do. The mortician will inevitably encounter some unexpected situations during the long journey of exorcising the corpse. If the corpse changes, you must use the sound of the gong before turning into a zombie." Guide the souls of the dead back into their bodies." "It's really nonsense." Ma Yifei said disdainfully. Jia Xiaobing couldn't bear it, and asked, "Can any of you help me think of an idea, how can I get my things?" Among these people, he should be the most stressed person. "It's good to be able to protect yourself now, who has the heart to think about digging for medicine, are you really stupid or just pretending to be stupid?" Ma Yifei said. Jia Xiaobing seemed to be extremely disappointed. Since then, his face was pale and he didn't say a word.I comforted him secretly: "Dude, don't worry. Although Ma Yifei's words are not pleasant, they are telling the truth. Sincerity is what makes gold and stone open. If there are gods in the sky, he will definitely bless you to find the fairy grass. As long as I'm here, and I'll do my best to help you." Jia Xiaobing sighed deeply: "Whether you can find it or not, I will thank you, Brother Bing." Having said that, I know that Jia Xiaobing's hope is almost zero.The so-called human-shaped Polygonum multiflorum or the ten-thousand-year Ganoderma lucidum fairy grass, this is a very illusory legend. After a while, we had already entered the cave, and the already dark light suddenly became pitch black.Qin Hai took away most of the equipment and carried it on his back, and only distributed three flashlights.He and Ma Yifei were one by one, exploring the way at the front, while Lao Tofu was holding the other flashlight and turned it off. Soon, we heard the sound of rushing water.Qin Hai took a photo with his flashlight, and saw a small road on the left that was not too wide, and it continued on. On the right was a fault, not high, with a vertical drop of at most two or three meters. Below it was an underground river. The water source should be It comes from the ground, and under the light of the flashlight, the river water looks a bit muddy. Qin Hai smiled and said, "Jiao Kui is really not a cultured person. This is no cave, isn't it just an ordinary cave?" "How much cultural knowledge do you expect a mortician to have, literacy is not bad." Ma Yifei said. "Brother Qin, let's figure out the goal of moving forward. We can't move forward just for the sake of moving forward." I asked.Everyone knows that passing through this cave is the starting point of Jiao Kui's exorcism.I don't think there's anything there that we have to visit. "Of course there is a goal. I want to see who entrusted Jiao Kui with this errand. It's hard to come here, these strange things can't be missed, and there will be bragging capital when I go back, right?" At this time, Lao Tofu whispered in my ear: "Don't listen to his nonsense, this grandson wants to see the Five Elements Altar." The old tofu's words reminded me that Qin Hai definitely wanted to get some information from the Five Elements Altar, and perhaps there was really something he needed in it. The relationship between Lao Doufu and Qin Hai is in a mess.Lao Doufu has enough reasons to hate Qin Hai, saying that hating a person will make people lose their minds, but Lao Doufu has become wise, which shows that hating a person is also beneficial.Thinking of this, I can't help feeling funny.The thought hadn't disappeared when suddenly there was a crash.The soft sound immediately aroused everyone's vigilance, and the three flashlights immediately shone back and forth in the dark river.After lighting for a long time, the long and narrow river was still turbulent. "Don't be suspicious, maybe it's a stone being diverted into the river. Is it necessary to waste time on this noise?" Lao Tofu said. We continued to move forward, but no one spoke. Everyone seemed to have a tacit understanding, and they all pricked up their ears to listen to the change.Suddenly, Lin Li shouted, "You stepped on my foot." Before and after she walked with Lao Doufu, only Lao Doufu stepped on her feet. "I didn't step on you." Lao Tofu seemed aggrieved. "Besides you, who else could it be? I can't step on myself, right? You're too nervous." Lin Li said. Old Doufu said: "No matter how timid I am, I won't go to this point. If I step on you, can I not feel it?" "Okay, don't argue about such a trivial matter, are you interested?" Qin Hai seemed a little annoyed. "It's none of your business if we argue?" Lao Tofu became more and more angry. "Everyone, stop arguing, anyway..." Before I could finish speaking, Lin Li suddenly said "Oops" and fell into the dark river.Ma Yifei immediately shone a flashlight on the river, Lao Doufu and Qin Hai jumped back and forth without hesitation. "It's haunted." Jia Xiaobing's shrill cry immediately echoed in the cave, making it even more frightening to hear. Lin Li was quickly lifted to the surface of the water. It seemed that the expressions of the three of them were very strange, as if they were struggling.Ma Yifei said anxiously: "Hurry up and use the rope to pull them up." Jia Xiaobing took out a bundle of rope from his backpack, and threw one end of the rope into the water in a panic.Qin Hai was more active than Lao Tofu. He pushed Lin Li onto the rope and said loudly, "Pull her up first." Except for Ma Yifei who was lighting the lights, several of us immediately pulled the rope, intending to pull Lin Li up.But Lin Li seemed to be fixed in the water by something, and with the combined strength of several of us, we couldn't move it a little bit.At first I thought it was aquatic plants, but I soon found out that it was wrong.When our strength weakened, the strength suddenly increased, almost pulling us all into the water.Amidst Lin Li's exclamation, we hurriedly tried again, barely maintaining a balance of power. Seeing this, Qin Hai hurriedly took out the paratrooper knife from his body, bit it sideways on his mouth, and dived into the water with the flashlight in hand.After a while, the stalemate force suddenly disappeared, and suddenly, Lin Li was dragged out of the water by us, and we were also slammed onto the stone wall behind us by inertia.I was hit to the bone marrow, but I still gritted my teeth and pulled Lin Li out of the water.Then, Lao Doufu and Qin Hai were dragged up one by one. After Qin Hai came, the first thing he did was to grab the hand of Lin Li, who had a pale face, and pulled her up from the ground, who was sitting on the ground trembling, and said loudly to everyone: "Run back quickly. Otherwise, we won't be able to get out." As soon as the words finished, the water was clattering and clattering.Looking at the turbid river again, four or five pairs of human hands stretched out in an instant. The color was purple and black, and the fingers were like steel hooks.Originally, we hesitated after Qin Hai's shout, but now, it was as if we heard the starting gun, and everyone started to run desperately. At this time, there was also a horrible whimper behind us, like a group of wronged men crying in a low voice.In this strange sound, there was also a rush of footsteps.We ran desperately, and at the same time, Ma Yifei's gun fired, and the whimpering sound suddenly became more miserable, and we could only hear the hairs on the whole body standing on end, and we were scolded in our hearts.Fortunately, it was not far from the entrance of the cave, so it rushed out quickly. Excessively frightened and running too hard, once they bid farewell to fear, darkness and gloom, everyone leaned on the car almost limply.Fortunately, Qin Hai made a decisive decision. As long as we hesitate a little, we may not be able to escape from this terrifying cave.If the previous danger was just a feeling for us, then this time it is a real face of death. But then there was trouble again, because Lin Li, who was greatly frightened, was burying her face in Qin Hai's arms and weeping softly, and Qin Hai also hugged Lin Li tightly in his arms.From Qin Haigan's risky rescue of Lin Li to the present situation, a fool can see that these two people have a story long ago.Old tofu, what a pity.Then I turned my eyes to the hole. Fortunately, the things inside didn't seem to want to be exposed to the broad daylight, and didn't follow out.The entrance of the cave is dark, and nothing can be seen at all. The deep darkness hides all the frightening factors, and only waits for those who don't know the inside story to go in and die. Suddenly, Lao Doufu's furious voice came: "You fucking behave yourself."