Chapter 10 Chapter 10: People in the Mountains Live Long

Xiangsi looked at Yang Yizhi suspiciously, and said, "Why?" Yang Yizhi said: "Because the wreckage of the village chief's wife is definitely not just this one." Xiangsi was startled, and tremblingly said: "You mean there are other baby corpses that will be eaten?" Yang Yizhi nodded slowly and said: "Exactly. It's just that Du's mother can hardly move in the icy lake, and can only rely on the undercurrent at the bottom of the lake to slowly approach the baby's corpse, so judging from the situation of the happy people on the shore, the other baby's corpses are still there for the time being. was not violated."

Xiangsi said, "That is to say, we still have time?" Yang Yizhi shook his head and said: "Although Mother Du has not passed, the baby corpse in Crescent Lake is breaking through the barrier and moving towards Furongze." Xiangsi was surprised and said: "Could it be that they will take the initiative to find Du Mu? Why?" "Because of resentment," Yang Yizhi sighed as he looked at the panic-stricken Xishe people in the six-pointed formation, "the corpses of the children in Crescent Lake were sunk to the bottom of the lake just after they were born, tortured by the cold current and ice waves, The pain of being sucked by the biological parents is unbearable for anyone, let alone babies who are new to the world? Once they are born, they are determined to suffer forever, not to enter reincarnation, and not to be free. Therefore, the bottom of Crescent Lake has become a entanglement of grievances. The reason why Xishe was imprisoned is that Xisheren had already set up a magic circle at the bottom of the lake at the beginning of burying the infant, and those seven-color beads were the hub of the magic circle. Now, Du Mu broke the magic circle in the east , those infant spirits are losing their confinement, they are not so much being eaten by the mother of Dudu, it is better to say that they voluntarily gave up their bodies and combined with the remnant of the mother of Dudu. Then you can get out of the imprisoned body and rush out of the lake while attached to the mother of Du Du!"

Xiangsi was startled and said, "Then, isn't it just another disaster for Du Mu?" Yang Yizhi shook his head and said: "Although there are many mothers of Du Du, they have no brains and are not to be feared. These infant spirits are entangled in resentment, fierce and cunning, once they condense, they are by no means comparable to Mother Du." Xiangsi was stunned for a moment, and murmured: "Then what should we do?" Her eyes were somewhat pleading, and she turned to Yang Yizhi. Yang Yizhi was silent for a moment, and finally said: "When I left the Mandala Sect, I made a solemn oath that I would not mention the Mandala Sect for the rest of my life. Therefore, on the Tianchao, although I had doubts in my heart, I have never been able to speak out. Now , we have entered the mandala circle. In this circle, every word I say and everything I do can only make the danger even greater. The helpless thing has come to this, and I can only confess... The only weakness of the water baby spirit formation is that the baby corpse is very fragile before it is fully combined with the mother of Dudu, as long as it is out of the water and directly exposed to the sunlight, it will be reduced to ashes."

Xiangsi was taken aback, and said: "You mean, we have to pick up all the baby corpses in Crescent Moon Lake, put them in the sun and turn them into ashes?" Yang Yizhi stared at the bottomless lake and said, "This is the only thing we can do." Xiangsi turned her head to look at Xisheren on the bank, and said, "Then they?" Yang Yizhi shook his head and sighed softly, it seemed difficult to answer. Zhuo Wangsun said decisively: "What we can do is to immediately cut off the red thread on their bodies." Xiangsi was startled, then thought of those old and corrupt faces swimming in the water, couldn't help shivering: "Cut it off, will they grow old?"

Zhuo Wangsun said indifferently: "They are just returning to the appearance they should have. Hundreds of years ago, they were just living corpses surviving on the evil formation." Xiangsi looked at the crowd, those ugly but still very young Xishe people were kneeling in the hexagram pattern on the bank praying in a low voice.They looked at the sky in panic, and the only bright eyes in their bodies became as dark as dead gray. Some couples helped each other, hugging their heads and crying together. Xiangsi shook her head and said, "No, we can't kill them." Zhuo Wangsun said indifferently: "If you do your own crimes, you can't live."

Xiangsi looked back at him, and said heavily: "It is precisely because they are guilty and are suffering for their own sins that we should save them!" Zhuo Wangsun looked at the lake and said, "For evil, destruction is the only salvation." Acacia momentarily speechless.At this moment, the group of Xishe people slowly stood up from the six-pointed pattern, faced the center of the lake, looked far away, and sang some softly whispered songs, as if they were begging for something. The moon had sunk to the horizon, illuminating the lake like a large piece of biscuit.On the other side of the purple-blue sky, a few faint rays of light gradually appeared, and it seemed that the sky was about to break dawn.

There was a slight sound of water breaking on the shore of the lake, and the group of Xishe people jumped into the lake in an instant. They entered the water very lightly and quickly, and the water calmed down as soon as there were some small waves splashing. Xiangsi came back to her senses, and asked in surprise, "What are they doing?" Zhuo Wangsun said: "I don't know. Maybe they wanted to snatch the baby's corpse and escape, or maybe they didn't want to live any longer, so they wanted to take out the baby's corpse from the bottom of the lake and kill themselves."

Xiangsi said: "Then we..." Zhuo Wangsun glanced at her and said, "We just need to cut the thread immediately." Yang Yizhi said: "Wait a minute, I heard these Xishe people talking softly just now, they really want to take out the baby's body, and die with it when the morning sun rises." Zhuo Wangsun smiled and said: "What they think has nothing to do with my decision." Yang Yizhi frowned and said: "These Xishe people look ugly and cunning, but secretly they are extremely conceited of their beauty. They would rather be wiped out with the baby's corpse in the rising sun, than be eaten by Du Mu or become old. Why is Mr. Zhuo not doing it?" This wish of theirs is forced upon each other, so what's the benefit of Mr. Yu Zhuo?"

Zhuo Wangsun sneered, and was about to answer when the waves of the lake moved slightly, and the group of Xishe people had already emerged from the water, each holding a baby's corpse in their arms. Those Xishe people walked towards the six-pointed array in a dull manner, with deep sorrow on their faces, and tranquility after extreme panic.The Xisheren who had just led the singing came out of the water last, holding the baby's body in one hand and a large ball of silk thread in the other.He folded the silk threads on each Xisheren in front of him and gathered them together, leaving only a few feet of space for each Xisheren to hold the baby corpse and move within the range of the six-pointed array.

The man walked straight towards Zhuo Wangsun with a look of fear.He hesitated for a while, then reluctantly looked at the ball of thread in his hand for a long time, and finally handed it to Zhuo Wangsun, muttering something in his mouth. Yang Yizhi looked at him, sighed, and said to Zhuo Wangsun: "He handed over the red thread of the whole family to you as a witness, hoping that you can give them a chance to keep their current appearance and die at sunrise. " Zhuo Wangsun said: "I am so greedy for youth..." He waved his hand lightly, but did not pick up the red thread.

Yang Yizhi whispered a few words to the man, and the man bowed his head in a gesture of thanks, and the Xishe people behind him responded in unison, it didn't sound like cheering, but rather weeping. They retreated to the six-pointed pattern in the middle of the lakeshore, took off their shabby clothes, and occasionally scooped up water from their feet and poured it on their bodies. The group of Xishe people were vigorously scrubbing themselves and the body of the baby corpse in their arms, and some of them even dug out those seven-color beads from their underwear pockets, and stuck them on their foreheads with mud and wet.Their movements were extremely careful, especially for the tattoos on their bodies, they were even more carefully cleaned. Some of them even combed their hair and their backs alternately. The dark skin was stained with water, and it looked shiny in the moonlight. The moonlight is getting lighter, and the sky is blue and white, like a fish maw.In the dim light, the group of Xishe people were weeping and washing their hands at the same time.Their ferocious and ugly faces showed a sad and self-pitying expression, just like those beauties who passed away in their prime in the legend, looking at themselves in the mirror before dying, sighing endlessly. Normally, this weird scene would be more ridiculous than weird, but at this time, no one could laugh. After a while, their movements gradually slowed down, their bodies trembled uncontrollably, and their expressions became extremely painful. It seemed that they had exhausted all their strength to complete the current movements. Several of them even fell to the ground and were helped up by others. Already panting again and again.But none of them stopped, even the wounded man whose skull had melted was lying in the water, screaming miserably while struggling to wash his whole body with his hands. Xiangsi said, "They, what happened to them?" Yang Yizhi shook his head and said: "After the baby spirit came out of the water, Xi Sheren's strength rapidly weakened, not to mention that the rays of light before sunrise have become more and more intense. After a while, they may not even have the strength to sit upright." Those Xishe people seemed to be unable to bear the rays of the sun. They bowed their backs, put their hands on the ground, and trembled all over their bodies. They seemed to want to hide in the wet soil on the ground, but they were afraid of getting their freshly washed skin dirty. The whole body squirmed, moaning softly. Xiangsi couldn't bear to watch it any longer, and said, "How can I help them?" Zhuo Wangsun said indifferently: "At this point, you can only pray for the sun to come out soon." A Xishe man finally couldn't hold it anymore, screamed and threw himself on the ground, and then there was a muffled sound when he fell to the ground.Xisheren was lying on the ground, looking at the mud on his body in pain, unable to sit up anymore, he could only scratch his chest in the mud and howl.From their emerald green eyes welled up unusually large pale blue tears that hung on their swarthy cheeks.The cry was very thin and extremely shrill, to the ears of people, it was like grinding teeth. Xishe people cherish their appearance more than anything else, and dying in muddy water is undoubtedly the cruelest torture for them. Yang Yizhi stared at Xi Sheren, shook his head and said: "Xi Sheren is so greedy for youth, he doesn't hesitate to kill his own flesh and blood, yet he has to be punished like this when he is about to die. Heaven's retribution, it is really ruthless." A soft sigh came from behind him, the strange fragrance moved slightly, and Xiao Yan came out from behind the crowd.At this moment, his face was paler than usual, and his steps were very heavy, as he walked slowly towards the howling Xisheren. Qianli Zishi took a step forward, trying to stop him, but staggered himself.As soon as Xiaoyan supported her, Qianli Zishi glanced at him, then quickly turned his eyes away, frowning at the group of Xishe people.Their hideous faces were contorted in agony, and their bodies were covered in sticky muck.Qianli Zishi said softly: "Young master, just let me go." Xiaoyan shook his head, let her go, walked slowly to the formation of Xisheren, helped them up one by one, took the water from the lake and poured it over their heads.In a moment, his lavender sleeves were splashed with mud, and his arms were covered with crazy scratches from Xisheren's excruciating pain. Qianli Zishi was startled, and quickly followed. Xiangsi turned to Zhuo Wangsun and said, "I want to help them." Zhuo Wangsun looked at the sunrise and didn't answer or stop her. When Xiangsi arrived in the formation, the three of them just looked at each other for a moment, did not speak, each performed their duties, lifted the Xishe people beside them from the ground one by one, and washed them with clean water.Those Xishe people struggled instinctively to protect the pain first, and after a while they became extremely weak, and could only barely lean on each other and sit upright.There are a few that are particularly weak, unable to support their weight at all, and keep falling down.Xiangsi and the others could only take care of other people first, and then stay by their side to support them. The red light from the distant mountains gradually expanded, and the tops of the mountains were all dyed golden, and a little further back was green red, then lavender, and the bottom was still in deep darkness.The clouds and waves are churning, and countless rays of light are interlaced and changing, like lotus flowers, like mirror stands, like gray dogs, like flying birds.Behind the sea of ​​clouds, the golden light made the clouds extremely thin, as if they were about to burst out from the gap at any moment. A girl from the Xishe ethnic group leaned quietly on Acacia's shoulder. Her frail arm was only as thick as three fingers of an ordinary person. Her complexion seemed to have been burned by a raging fire. Her dark skin showed a sickly blush from the rubbing just now. The cracks are like fish scales. She looked extremely painful under the sun, her body was twitching uncontrollably, her green eyes were wide open, as if they were going to pop out of their sockets.Xiangsi tried her best to make her sit upright, because she knew that although this Xisheren felt nothing but pain, she still hoped that she could maintain the most beautiful posture. Under the sea of ​​clouds, the bright red sun leaped suddenly, highlighting the horizon.Thousands of golden rays of sunshine are like a huge net, covering everything in the world in an instant. Xiangsi couldn't bear the sudden sunlight, so she closed her eyes.Even so, she still clearly felt that the light, like a sharp knife, swung straight down from the sky and passed through the bodies of everyone in the six-pointed formation. Then, she heard the Xishe girl in her arms sigh, maybe at that moment, all the Xishe people sighed at the same time, or maybe no one. That sad voice was like the morning wind blowing across the lake, and it was instantly dissolved into the hot air without a trace. Xiangsi felt that the girl in her hand was rapidly becoming lighter, like a cloud, ready to rise with the wind at any moment.When she looked down, the Xishe girl's body was still intact, but every inch of her skin had turned into dust. Xiangsi knew that as long as she moved slightly, the corpse in her hand would disperse like smoke and dust, so she forced herself to keep a still posture as much as possible.Even so, these bodies that should have become Dust Mustard hundreds of years ago will soon return to their original form, but she would rather wait for the morning breeze to complete this moment. The rising sun shone the brilliance of new life on this decayed land, every corpse was coated with a layer of golden light, and in the soil beside them, the grass, vines, ants, and moths had all emerged from the darkness of night. Zhongsu grows, flaps its wings for food, lives and reproduces.All living beings, countless in the sands of the Ganges, live and die in the morning and in the evening, and fade in spring and autumn.Although their lives are short, they are passed on from generation to generation and are endless.For them, the sunshine every day is as novel and beautiful as seeing it for the first time. The sunlight hurt Xiangsi's eyes more scorchingly, she lowered her head subconsciously, and a tear fell silently. The teardrop trembled slightly in the air with the sunlight, drew a colorful arc, and then fell on the face of the corpse in her arms.Accompanied by a very light sound, a deep dent appeared on that ugly face. Although it was only the size of a drop of water, it spread uncontrollably in an instant, from the forehead, to the whole face, to the whole body.Like quicksand collapsing, like dust rising up, it has turned into trillions of dust in an instant and dissipated in the air, as if it had never existed in the world. Xiangsi was empty-handed, still maintaining the posture just now, tears poured out uncontrollably. At this moment, Qianli Zishi suddenly shouted softly behind her: "Stop!" Xiangsi turned her head in amazement, the golden lake was shining brightly, and in the water less than a foot away from the shore, a raccoon-like animal was hiding in the colorful halo, watching everyone silently. Suddenly, its figure leaped, and it had already reached the shore.Its original dark green eyes showed a light blue like lake waves in the sun, and the fiery red hairs drilled out of the water but were not stained by water. Against the halo of the lake, it quietly watched the movement of the clairvoyant stone. The eyes, the eyes were filled with an indescribable sarcasm. That was the Firefox that had been following them. Xiangsi was startled suddenly, and was about to remind Qianli Zishi to close her eyes so as not to be seduced by Firefox, but it was already too late!There was a strange fierce light in Qianli Zishi's eyes, he pushed the corpse in his hand suddenly, and jumped towards Firefox. The corpse in her hand turned into a cloud of dust and flew up. At that moment, it happened to block her eyes. She froze slightly. Pounced on. Qianli Zishi shortened her body, and the Firefox flew past her head, passing through the six-pointed array with lightning speed, and there were subtle sounds in the array. Under the golden sunlight, countless dust particles were seen floating in the air, and the light was refracted chaotically. It was like a huge drop of transparent water was shrouded in the surroundings, and the scenery was in the faint light and shadow. Subtly changing its own form. Qianlizishi's body seemed to be frozen in the center of the water drop for an instant, her face looked expressionless, but there was an indescribable weirdness in it. The dust in the six-pointed array gradually dissipated, and the Firefox seemed to disappear without a trace along with the dust.The hexagram pattern is lifeless, and the messy red lines twist ferociously on the soil, like a mysterious altar that has been abandoned for a long time. Xiaoyan seemed to have noticed something, and said, "Zishi?" Qianli Zishi stood expressionlessly in the middle of the red line, as if she had lost all sense. Xiaoyan took a few steps forward, picked up her wrist with one hand, and gently placed it on her forehead with the other.Under the sun, he frowned and tried his best to calm himself down, but he still couldn't stop panting slightly, and his face was even paler. It seemed that these few simple actions had exhausted most of his energy. Zhuo Wangsun stared at him and said, "Your Highness seems to be uncomfortable with the sun." In the glaring halo, Xiaoyan turned his head, with a calm smile on his pale face, and said: "When I was born, a blood curse was planted on my body, and Miss Acacia already knows all about it. Feel free to ask." Zhuo Wangsun looked back at Xiangsi, and Xiangsi was about to say something when suddenly her gaze was fixed on Qianli Zishi——a cyan paw print stood out clearly and ferociously in the center of Qianli Zishi's eyebrows.