Chapter 44 Chapter Forty-Four: Sorcery

The only lighting tool, the horse lantern, was brought into the robbery cave by the man, and the outside suddenly fell into a dark silence.But all kinds of lurking dangers seem to have quietly protruded tentacles to intersect with this world in every mysterious and dark corner at this time. The young Guard Cui couldn't help but looked around cautiously.This kind of looking is useless, except for the darkness in front of you, it is darkness, everything looks hazy and vague, revealing a kind of black temptation... About ten minutes later, more than a dozen people crawled out of the cave in a file. These people seemed to be local farmers hired temporarily, each holding hoes, shovels, dustpans, baskets and other things in their hands. , and are all naked from the upper half of the body.It can be seen that these people are working very hard below, perhaps because they are working so hard that they all took off their clothes and sweated profusely digging holes underground.

But after these people came out of the burrow, they didn't rush to put on clothes, nor did they pat the fresh dirt on their bodies. Instead, they stood in a row in an orderly manner as if they had undergone special training, and remained motionless. Riwobuji, who was hiding behind the bamao bushes, gave Battalion Commander Shi a hand and said in a low voice, "Things don't seem quite right." "What's wrong? Did you see anything?" Battalion Commander Shi asked in a low voice. "It's hard to say, it's just a feeling." Riwobuji said. As soon as the words fell, a horse lantern stretched out from the hole in the ground, and then another person crawled out, followed by an old man with gray hair and beard.The old man was actually wearing a yin and yang Taoist robe, his gray hair was tied into a bun, and he was holding a whisk in his hand.

This old man is a Taoist priest. Riwobuji let out a soft "huh" and fixed his eyes on the last Taoist priest who came out without blinking. Battalion Commander Shi whispered, "Why are there Taoists?" Riwobuji replied: "I can feel that there must be something strange in it. They really used the magic technique that shouldn't be used." "What did you say?" Battalion Commander Shi was startled and stared at Riwobuji. Riwobuji still stared at the Taoist priest and said, "Although none of the people you saw were wearing clothes, none of them sweated."

After being reminded by Riwobuji, Battalion Commander Shi and Guard Cui looked at the dozen or so people standing in a row.Under the dim light of the horse lanterns, there was really no sign of sweat on the bodies of this group of people. Guard Cui looked more carefully, and whispered: "I really didn't sweat, and the skin didn't have any luster, just like the skin of a dead person, dry." "Look carefully at their faces again." Riwobuji reminded again. Battalion Commander Shi and Guard Cui looked at the faces of the dozens of people, they were stunned, and they whispered in surprised voices almost at the same time: "Is it a dead person?"

Although the lights of the horse lanterns were dim and unclear, through the hazy lights, one could still see that the expressions on the faces of this group of people were dull and stiff, as if they were dead. "Although they are not dead, they are no different from dead people. This is the real walking dead." Riwobuji said in a low voice. The eyes of Battalion Commander Shi and Guard Cui widened in the darkness.If they hadn't seen it with their own eyes, they wouldn't believe that what Riwobuji said was true. At this time, the old man with the appearance of a Taoist scooped a bowl of clear water from a wooden barrel on the ground with a large coarse porcelain bowl, and then dipped it in the whisk and sprinkled it on the faces of the dozens of people, his mouth was vague. chanting mantra-like sentences.

"What is this bull-nosed Taoist priest chanting?" asked Chaori Wobuji, commander of the Shi Battalion. "Instigmatism," Riwobuji said. "Is there really such a witchcraft?" "I've only heard about it but never seen it with my own eyes. It's the first time I saw it today. I only heard about this kind of witchcraft in India. I didn't expect that this kind of witchcraft is still alive here." Riwobuji said . The Taoist-looking old man sprinkled water on the faces of the dozens of people one by one, and then gestured with the index finger of his right hand on the bowl of water for a while, closed his eyes slightly, continued to mutter words, and then took a big mouthful of the bowl. The clear water in the mouth, the cheeks were swollen like the swollen belly of a toad, and then, there was only a "poof", and a mist of water was sprayed from the Taoist's mouth, and it diffused in the air in front of the group of people. .Afterwards, the Taoist took out a brass bell from his arms, shook it, and took the lead to walk forward.The brass bell rang softly, and the group of people seemed to be possessed by an evil spirit, carrying the work belongings in their hands, and followed the Taoist priest step by step.The movement of walking is stiff and dull.

"What kind of sorcery is this? It's so powerful!" Yingchang Shi said in surprise. Riwobuji said: "This is really a witchcraft. It is more evil and evil than the technique of driving corpses. If the dozen or so people don't try to rescue them as soon as possible, they will probably become real dead if they use it for a day or two. .” "Ah! Do you mean that these dozen or so people are still living people?" "Of course they are living people. How can there be so many dead people all in one color, and all of them are strong laborers!" Riwobuji and Battalion Commander Shi kept their voices as low as possible when they were talking behind the Bamao bushes.

"We have to find a way to wipe out this group of people!" Battalion Commander Shi said worriedly. Riwobuji said: "Now, with only a few of us, we can't do this at all. If we alert them recklessly, not only will the matter not be done, it may cause even bigger troubles." While talking, one of the two people who had been guarding the entrance of the robber's cave said: "I'm going to get here temporarily today, and we have to discuss a proper way before we can move." It was the man who had gone into the cave with the lantern. Another said: "Are you really having trouble?"

"It's not very tricky, but don't do it rashly. Otherwise, it will be worthless. Let's go." He said and left with the lantern. "Tell them to come over and help you cover the hole, and we'll do it tomorrow." The last person who was leaving told the young man who was holding a lantern to light the hole just now.After giving the order, the man who followed the lantern disappeared into the bamboo forest. The area around the robbery cave was suddenly plunged into darkness again. The young man who received the order softly yelled into the dark air ahead: "Guiguiba, weight..."

He was greeting the two people who had been tied up by Riwobuji. Battalion Commander Shi and Guard Cui appeared out of the bushes in a tacit understanding and walked towards the man. The man didn't expect that the two people he called would appear in front of him in the blink of an eye, and said, "Why are you like ghost shadows, all of a sudden..." Before he finished speaking, Guard Cui had already gone up and grabbed the throat beautifully, subduing the man. Riwobuji also went out at this time.Battalion Commander Shi Asahi Obuji said: "We have to go down and see what kind of situation it is."

Riwobuji agreed. So Battalion Commander Shi ordered Guard Cui to watch out at the entrance of the cave, and he and Riwobuji went down into the cave. Guard Cui tied up the guy who had restrained him tightly, and then dragged him into the bush to hide. Guard Cui, who was guarding the entrance of the cave, sat on the ground, the surrounding darkness seemed to be getting deeper and deeper, and there seemed to be wisps of wet mist.Guard Cui sniffed the air, and it was indeed foggy. Fog is also normal in winter, let alone at night.However, the fog seemed to come a little too suddenly.Just now, under the reflection of the lantern, there seemed to be no fog at all, but at this moment, the overwhelming fog suddenly gathered silently. Cui Jingwei felt that the fog came a little abruptly, and secretly felt strange.So he took out the flashlight on his waist and irradiated his surroundings.Sure enough, a dense fog enveloped him inexplicably.The light of the flashlight can only shoot a distance of one meter, and the fog is filled in the bright white beam of light... Guard Cui didn't pay much attention to the rising fog, so he turned off the flashlight. Suddenly, Guard Cui felt a hand as cold as water grab his hand holding the flashlight...