By the sixth day, four or five cows in the convoy had died. en8. The originally loose oxcart suddenly became tense. Goods were being moved up and down every day, and the guards tried to make more space.
Zheng Zhenzhen didn't have anything to do every day. After watching them move things for a long time, she noticed something unnatural.
"What kind of goods is this convoy transporting? Why are these wooden boxes nailed layer by layer to make them airtight?" Zheng Zhenzhen walked around curiously. She grabbed a guard and asked.
"Girl, give it up, we can't move it!" Four guards came over carrying a big box, sweating profusely. Zheng Zhenzhen couldn't stand in the middle of the road anymore and could only watch them leave.
"It's strange. Such a big box is more than enough to hold four or five children. What is it that makes it so big?" Zheng Zhenzhen followed him unwillingly.
The guards stuffed the boxes into the cart and ignored them, running to get other boxes. Zheng Zhenzhen took this opportunity to jump on the back of the bullock cart. She put her eyes up and found that there seemed to be something dark sealed inside the wooden box, so she couldn't see it at all.
Zheng Zhenzhen reached out and lifted the box again, and found that the box was motionless and seemed to be very heavy. Unable to see and unable to lift, Zheng Zhenzhen thought for a moment and put his ears up again, but he heard nothing.
Probably a dead object like a statue. Zheng Zhenzhen was thinking this, and suddenly a small voice came to his ears.
The sound was subtle, as if someone was breathing next to her ear. Zheng Zhenzhen suddenly felt a cold air coming up from the soles of her feet. She took a few steps back and looked at the box carefully, but there was nothing strange about it at this time.
"Girl! Please stop making trouble, we are busy here!" The guard was about to stuff another box in, but when he saw Zheng Zhenzhen standing inside, he couldn't help but get angry.
"Wait, what on earth is here? How could I..." Zheng Zhenzhen was in shock. She wanted to ask about the situation, but the guard didn't appreciate it at all and drove her away in a few moments.
Zheng Zhenzhen thought about it for a long time, and realized that the weak breathing was very real, and it should not be an illusion. She felt a little scary, and her first reaction was to run back to find Yun Qing. When she rushed back to the car, she saw Yun Qing meditating and immediately calmed down again.
Yun Qing concentrated on mobilizing her zhenqi. After a small week, she raised her head and said to Zheng Zhenzhen, "Are you scared?"
Zheng Zhenzhen nodded vigorously. She was almost surprised by Yun Qing's omniscience: "It really scared me to death just now!!"
"Speak slowly." Yun Qing reached out to pour her water, but was stopped by Zheng Zhenzhen.
"I'll do it myself." Zheng Zhenzhen took the square cup in her hand and said a little embarrassedly, "It's too much for you to do this every time you cast a spell..."
Yun Qing was silent, and he didn't know what kind of magic he used, but he actually made a cup of cold dew out of thin air without even touching the cup.
Zheng Zhenzhen held the cold cup and couldn't laugh or cry. en8.
"Get rootless water from between heaven and earth, and then use the demonic flames of the Great Sun and Black Sky to remove its impurities. This is cleaner." Yun Qing explained, with a thought, the black flames circled around the small lamp, "There is nothing here It’s reliable, I’m afraid there will be a problem if you eat and drink with those people every day.”
Zheng Zhenzhen didn't expect Yun Qing to be so defensive. He looked at her speechlessly for a while, then said while holding the cup of hot water: "...Thank you."
"Go on." Yun Qing nodded, indicating for her to continue.
Zheng Zhenzhen was interrupted by her, and the fear in her heart had dissipated a lot. She said seriously: "I think there are living things in those cargo boxes!"
"Why do you say that?" Yun Qing's expression was calm, and he couldn't tell whether he believed it or not.
"I heard it! There was something breathing inside, and the guards kept avoiding talking about the contents of the box!" Zheng Zhenzhen said excitedly.
Yun Qing comforted him: "Okay, don't worry, so what if it's a living creature? Can we let it go?"
"This..." Zheng Zhenzhen thought about it carefully. Who stipulated that live things cannot be contained in cargo boxes? It is not impossible to hunt some rare animals from the mountains and sell them on the grassland. But she still felt something was wrong in her heart. The weak breathing echoed in her heart from time to time, making her covered in cold sweat.
"Still can't let go?" Yun Qing saw her troubled face, so she said, "Then let's go explore tonight."
"Ah!?" Zheng Zhenzhen didn't expect that Yun Qing would accompany her to do such a thing.
"I also want to know...how something can survive in such a completely sealed environment for so long."
Yun Qing smiled meaningfully.
Zheng Zhenzhen thought about it carefully and became even more frightened. If there was a living thing in that cargo box, and it couldn't breathe or eat in that place, how did it survive
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"This... do we really want to go?"
The convoy camped for a rest at night. Although the place was not deep into the grassland, there were also prairie wolves, so traveling at night was still very dangerous.
Zheng Zhenzhen lowered her voice and asked Yun Qing beside her. She moved lightly for fear of waking up the sleeping guards beside her.
Yun Qing looked magnanimous, as if she was not going to pry into someone else's cargo box but just visiting someone else's house. Amang was never in the state, and followed Yun Qing with a stupid look, his footsteps shaking the ground. Zheng Zhenzhen's heart and liver trembled with every step he took. It was lucky for the guards that they hadn't woken up even after such an earthquake-like movement.
"If you don't want to, then we will go back." Yun Qing stopped, and now Zheng Zhenzhen was even more worried.
She gritted her teeth and said, "I want to!"
Yun Qing said: "Lead the way, where is the box you mentioned?"
Zheng Zhenzhen gently walked around several ox carts, walked to the end of the convoy, and pointed to the goods that had just been sorted out today: "It's right there."
Yun Qing stepped forward and saw six or seven large boxes like this piled in a bullock cart. From Zheng Zhenzhen's description, she was afraid that the one who heard the sound today was in this cart.
"Should we get those outside out?" Zheng Zhenzhen looked back and saw that Aman had already stepped forward to open the car door and got the box down without any effort.
Zheng Zhenzhen was stunned. Today, several guards were exhausted from carrying a box, but he actually easily lifted the box out with one hand.
"You stay with Amang, I'll go up and take a look." Yun Qing rubbed Fang Cunzhan and disappeared. Zheng Zhenzhen knew she was getting in the car.
But there was no movement at all after Yun Qing entered. The moon outside was covered by dark clouds, and the surroundings were pitch dark. Zheng Zhenzhen shivered when he heard the howling of wolves coming from nowhere.
"Yun Qing?" She lowered her voice and looked into the car.
It was dark inside, and Yun Qing's white sacrificial robe stood out. Only after seeing this scene did Zheng Zhenzhen understand that darkness really has degrees. In the darkness of the night, there are still stars, lights, and moonlight, but the darkness surrounding Yun Qing is like an abyss swallowing the light. There is really no color at all. Not coming out.
She was wearing white clothes, but her whole body was covered with blazing demonic flames, and she stood quietly in front of the box. At this time, the box fell toward the outside, and Yun Qing opened a big black hole on the top.
"Don't come over." Yun Qing sighed.
But Zheng Zhenzhen had already walked to her side, and a foul smell came over her. Zheng Zhenzhen almost spit out her breakfast.
This stench seemed to go past her nose and directly into her brain, it was so clear and terrifying. Zheng Zhenzhen felt that it was like fresh meat that had been left out for several days in the heat, rotten and smelly. Zheng Zhenzhen covered his nose, but the smell stuck, pervasive, and extremely pungent. She collapsed and said: "What is this!"
"Don't come over." Yun Qing repeated this sentence. She raised her hand and blocked Zheng Zhenzhen's sight with her wide sleeves with complicated patterns.
"What on earth is it?" Zheng Zhenzhen couldn't help but look curiously, but the black flames on Yun Qing's body were consuming light, and she couldn't see anything.
"help me… "
A slight voice came from the opening of the box. Zheng Zhenzhen couldn't stand when she heard this. She quickly walked around Yun Qing and walked up.
A young man who was too dirty to look human crawled out of the big dark hole. His whole body was covered in dark, filthy mucus and all kinds of filth that could not be seen clearly. He was wearing tattered clothes that looked like a monk's robe, his hair was disheveled, and his face could not be seen clearly. He was on all fours, crawling in a very twisted posture.
"Ugh..." Zheng Zhenzhen covered his mouth and wanted to vomit. The boy on the ground exuded a terrible stench.
"Are you okay?" Zheng Zhenzhen squatted down to see the boy's condition, but the next second he was pulled behind him by Yun Qing.
Almost at the same time, the boy crawling on the ground pounced on Zheng Zhenzhen like a wild beast. Through his disheveled hair, Zheng Zhenzhen hurriedly saw his scarlet eyes, which were shining fiercely like hungry wolves.
"Ouch!"
Yun Qing protected Zheng Zhenzhen with one hand, and held a square cup in the other hand. For a moment, he had no time to perform the technique. She reacted very quickly and pulled Zheng Zhenzhen a step to the left. The young man continued to move and rushed out of the box, bringing out some scattered things as he ran.
Zheng Zhenzhen accidentally glanced at something on the ground, which was white bones with tooth marks.
"Hungry..." The young man made a vague sound and rushed towards the two of them again.
The space in the car was small and it was difficult to dodge. Yun Qing let go of Zheng Zhenzhen's hand and pointed it into a sword like lightning. The light of white jade materialized on her fingertips. This fingertip sword was formed by Xuanyuan Jade Transformation Technique. The virtue of a gentleman is to be quite restrained from evil things.
The young man took a step back in fear, but Yun Qing was unwilling to let him escape, and Fang Cunzhan's light shone brightly.
"There is no limit to the square inch, and the ground is a prison."
This is also a technique after entering the Taoism. It is the most essential use of the square inch lamp, to isolate the world. The white-clothed envoy of Shiwandashan had used this trick on Yun Qing before. At this time, Yun Qing could only hold on for a short moment even with the help of the Heavenly Book, but this moment was enough.
The young man was blocked by an invisible barrier and his reaction was a beat slower. At this time, the Xuanyuan Jade Transformation Technique in Yun Qing's hand was stacked several more times, and the original fingertip sword became almost the same size as a real sword.
Yun Qing smiled and said: "It's better to die. If you die, you won't be hungry."
As she spoke, black flames filled her body, and a black flame wrapped around the white jade sword. Without hesitation, it stabbed into the boy's scarlet left eye, and the tip of the sword came out from the back of his head with dirty black mucus.
"Ahh!!" Zheng Zhenzhen screamed, frightened.
Yun Qing dispersed the spell, and the white jade and black flames returned to the aura of heaven and earth. A black liquid flowed out of the young man's brain, emitting a foul odor. The boy's entire body swelled up like a long-rotted corpse, his skin ulcerated, and disgusting corpse fluid leaked out.
"This, this is..." Zheng Zhenzhen forced herself to calm down, "What is this?"
Yun Qing wiped the square cup lamp, thinking silently.
"Oh, you are talking about this kid. He is a young Taoist priest. He seems to be called Qingyuan or something. He didn't want to stay in his own sect, so he followed me to learn the magic of moving mountains and filling seas. Unfortunately, he was too stupid and died accidentally. It’s in your hands…”
Yun Qing turned around when he heard the sound, and saw Yu Tu standing outside the car with a dark complexion, smiling gloomily at them.