Chapter 37 Chapter Thirty-Seven: A Place Shrouded in Witchcraft

Although Wu Qi expected that there would be no peace in this ghostly forest, and he would not be able to get out of it so easily, he never expected that this thing would come here lingeringly, as if he had a great interest in him.As the saying goes, it's easier to invite God than to give it away, this thing is forced out by oneself, so is it possible that you are now on your own? While hesitating, the thing grinned, revealing a mouth full of fine red teeth, shrinking its head eager to try, but also seemed to be afraid.Wu Qi remembered the horror of the blood letter red that Zhao Guai had described before, and now he stood there in a daze and did not dare to move. The two sides faced each other like this, and no one dared to act first.

After a while, the blood letter red couldn't hold back any longer, and it hovered around the silver fir tree for two times restlessly. It looked very dazzling in the night.Suddenly, the blood letter red stretched out its limbs, and like a huge bat, it rushed towards Wu Qi's face. The movement of that thing was so fast that Wu Qi didn't react at all. As soon as a breath of cold air entered his nasal cavity, he saw a large mass of blood clot-like object stuck to his face.Xuexinhong's attack method is extremely cruel. For those who have the ability to resist, it first unfolds its body, wraps the person's head tightly, and suffocates or poisons it to death. In the process, once its body suffers If it attacks, it will quickly flee away, peeling off the person's scalp and face.An ordinary person encountering a blood letter red is actually no different from encountering a hungry tiger alone, neither can escape death anyway.

This blood letter red is about to start the first kill in its life.It was too late to say it, and then it was too late, seeing it was almost touching Wu Qi's face, suddenly let out a strange cry, tilted his body suddenly, and flew out inexplicably sideways to Wu Qi's face.Wu Qi only felt a few drops of cold liquid splashed on his face, looked up in a trance, and saw the blood letter went straight to the left, hit the trunk of a tree, and then couldn't hold it anymore, heavy He fell to the ground and screamed "chirp". Wu Qi glanced sideways, and saw a figure standing less than ten feet to his right. He held his left arm flat. Under the night, he could clearly see the sleeve arrow box tied to that red arm.Wu Qi was taken aback, and when he looked at that face again, he was so excited that he was almost incoherent.

"Ghost Wu? Why are you? Why are you here?" This person is none other than Ghost Wu, thanks to his volleying arrow just now, otherwise Wu Qi's shameless plan would have been ripped off alive.However, his appearance really surprised Wu Qi. This guy disappeared for a few days, but suddenly appeared at this time, and saved his life as soon as he appeared. This is too much a plot of a martial arts TV series. Ghost Wu put down his raised left arm, and took two strides forward. Seeing this, Blood Xinhong jumped onto the big tree beside him and fled away in a panic.Ghost Wu didn't chase after him, but walked to the big tree and looked at the bloody sleeve arrow stuck on it. Ghost Wu's sleeve arrow was fired by a mechanism, and it was extremely powerful. Not only did it pass through Xue Xinhong's body, It also submerged deeply into the small half of the trunk.

He carefully pulled out the sleeve arrow, turned his head to Wu Qi and said seriously: "We can't kill it yet, but let it help us find something. I left some marks on it, so it won't be difficult to find it!" Wu Qi was naturally convinced by him, but he still didn't understand, so he couldn't help asking: "Why did you suddenly appear here? Where have you been these few days?" "On the tree!" Ghost Wu replied indifferently, as if nothing had happened. "On the tree?" Wu Qi said in amazement: "You set the fire? The shadow that ran out of the fire just now was you?" After Wu Qi finished speaking, he realized that his guess was right. No one can be found, let alone someone with the skill in the scene of the fire just now.

Ghost Wu said: "I followed this thing just to find that, and I didn't expect to meet you!" He paused, and continued: "I checked the surrounding area for the past few days, and if I go further, it's theirs." The hunting area is full of traps and traps, you can't get out!" Wu Qi seemed calm, and the appearance of Ghost Wu reassured him a lot. He continued to ask: "Then why did you burn the demon tree, and why are you on it?" "That's my lair, just like those golden ghosts, I have to have my own lair to guard something!" Ghost Wu's expression was blank, as if he was regretting that he had burned down the demon tree. He felt a sense of helplessness.

"Could it be? Those golden ghost bees were also domesticated by you? Also to help you guard something?" Wu Qi asked tentatively. At this point, various possibilities converged. It seemed that when they gathered, they became There is something called a fact. Ghost Wu nodded slightly, and said in an almost vicissitudes tone: "This is my mission, and now I have to destroy these things, so that it will not fall into the hands of some people with ulterior motives." Wu Qi knew Ghost Wu's temper, and he couldn't ask anything if he asked again, but Ghost Wu's attitude suddenly increased his curiosity, and he felt a sense of aggrieved for a while.Indeed, who would have imagined that there could be something ulterior in that weird demon tree?

"Your mission? Just to protect a tree? Are you also a person here?" Ghost Wu didn't answer, just looked at Wu Qi, and after a long pause, he said seriously: "Did you find anything different about the people in this village from ordinary people?" This question touched Wu Qi's heart, even if Ghost Wu didn't ask him again, he was ready to express his doubts to him. "It's not the same? I smell the same smell on these people as the old man of the Zhou family. Is this what you're talking about?" Ghost Wu nodded and said after a long time: "They are all a group of walking corpses. They look like normal people on the surface, but in fact they only have a shell. People here only know how to worship blindly and obey blindly. Fighting is not right for them. It’s possible! I really don’t know how long this ancient and ugly evil will last, maybe, now is the time to let them shine!”

"Then... what should we do next?" Wu Qi couldn't wait. According to Ghost Wu, not only himself, but also those who are still imprisoned in the village are bound to be in extreme danger. God knows that these gangs are blind Obedient eccentric villagers will do something to them.In my own impression, it is a common event for the strange people in the depths of the mountains to sacrifice living people. These people must not become sacrifices offered by the villagers to their ancestors and gods. Ghost Wu smelled the scent on the sleeve arrow, and immediately said with certainty: "It went to the direction of the back mountain! Follow it, the thing we are looking for should be there!"

What Wu Qi thinks more about at this time is how to rescue the people who were arrested together. He really doesn't understand what Ghost Wu is doing to take him to the back mountain. At this moment, Ghost Wu feels to himself that he has an impression of this place, but it seems It's not particularly familiar, if Ghost Wu is also from the village, there's no reason for him to take him running around in the forest like a thief. The two trotted for a while, and finally they didn't encounter any traps or traps, and they came to the back mountain smoothly all the way.The so-called Back Mountain is actually just a small hill. Guizizhang is a hilly area. Compared with the countless hills towering around it, the Back Mountain looks like a dwarf. Perhaps it is more appropriate to call it a big mound.As for Wu Qi, he always felt that it looked like a huge tomb, and really wondered if it was some huge mausoleum.

Compared with the desolate village, there is no other difference except that it is brighter because of the slightly higher terrain. It seems to be the same dead place.Several ruined walls fell to the ground, the rubble was messy, and some of the black bricks and stones were deeply sunken in the soil. Judging from the ashes on the surface, it seemed that the place had been looted by the fire. "What kind of place is this? Why does it look like there are traces of buildings?" Wu Qi looked at the bricks and stones all over the floor radiating to a large area around him, and asked Ghost Wu in doubt. It is indeed a bit surprising to see buildings built with bricks and tiles. Ghost Wu was silent for a while, then shook his head to express his uncertainty, then he bent down, grabbed two broken bricks on the spot and looked at them, then quickly threw them away, pointed around and said: "This is a broken brick made by a brick kiln. This should be another kind of building, and the only building built in this barren mountain is the mountain temple!" Mountain temple?Wu Qi was a little surprised. If it was really a mountain temple, judging from the scattered range of broken walls, broken bricks and tiles, it is enough to show that its scale is not small. It is common for residents in the deep mountains to worship mountain gods. Things, according to the size of the mountain temple in front of you, it seems that the gods enshrined here are enough to affect a large area around it. "It doesn't look like it was damaged by a natural disaster. It must have been man-made and smashed down!" Ghost Wu said with certainty, pointing at the broken bricks and tiles all over the floor. "Is it the god of the underworld that people here worship?" Wu Qi didn't understand who wanted to smash the mountain god they worshiped, but when he thought about it, he felt that it might be because of some conflict of beliefs. Man-made destruction of places dedicated to mountain gods was actually very common in ancient times, such as the early missionary movement of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, because the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was first a religious organization, and they believed in worshiping God. Hong Xiuquan, Feng Yunshan and others propagated the teachings and encouraged the local people to believe in God , will definitely be hindered by the worship of local mountain gods, large and small, so they carried out a series of god-smashing activities to break the local people's superstition about these mountain gods, large and small, and respect God alone.The more famous ones are the statue of Liuwu and the temple of Prince Gan! Going back to the past, the Taiping Sect, the Five Dou Rice Sect, the White Lotus Sect, and the Boxer Regiment after that all performed this scene repeatedly.As long as there is a conflict of religious beliefs, this kind of god-smashing movement will appear.According to the information collected by our archaeological team, this remote mountainous area was a very large ethnic minority gathering area at that time. Zhuang, Yao, Dong, Miao and other ethnic groups were widely distributed here, and it is very normal that there are different beliefs. . Ghost Wu said coldly: "You don't understand this place, the people here actually have a special belief!" "What special belief!" Wu Qi immediately asked when he heard the interest. "Fetishism!" Ghost Wu said with a hint of affirmation: "Many ancient mountain people had fetishism and witchcraft beliefs. They believed that certain objects could give them certain powers, so they would worship them. Maybe this place used to be A place shrouded in witchcraft!"