By the sixth day, four or five cows in the convoy had died. The ox cart, which was still very loose, became tense at once. Every day, goods were moved up and down, and the guards tried to make more space.
Zheng Zhenzhen didn't have much to do every day, and he noticed something unnatural after watching them move things for a long time.
"What kind of cargo is this convoy transporting? Why do you use wooden boxes to nail the airtight boxes layer by layer?" Zheng Zhenzhen walked around curiously, and she asked a guard.
"Let's go, girl, we can't move anymore!" Four guards walked over carrying a big box, sweating profusely. Zheng Zhenzhen couldn't stand in the middle of the road anymore, so he could only watch them go.
"It's weird, 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 up unwillingly.
Those guards stuffed the boxes into the ox cart and stopped caring, and ran to get other boxes. Zheng Zhenzhen took this opportunity to jump on the back of the bullock cart. She put her eyes on it, but it turned out that there seemed to be something dark inside the wooden box, and she couldn't see it at all.
Zheng Zhenzhen stretched out his hand to lift the box again, and found that the box was not moving at all, and it seemed that the weight was astonishing. Can't see, can't move, Zheng Zhenzhen thought about it and put his ear up again, but he didn't hear anything.
Probably something dead like a statue. Zheng Zhenzhen was thinking this way, when suddenly a small voice came from his ear.
The sound was very subtle, as if someone was breathing next to her ear. Zheng Zhenzhen suddenly felt a chill rushing up from the soles of her feet, she stepped back a few steps, and looked at the box carefully, but at this time there was nothing strange about it.
"Girl! Please don't make 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 a little angry.
"Wait, what the hell is here? How can I..." Zheng Zhenzhen was still in shock. She wanted to ask about the situation, but the guards didn't appreciate it at all, and drove her away after a few strokes.
Zheng Zhenzhen thought about it for a long time, and the weak breath was very real, 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 into the car, she saw Yun Qing who was meditating, and immediately calmed down again.
Yun Qing focused on mobilizing her true energy, and after a small week ended, she raised her head and said to Zheng Zhenzhen, "Are you scared?"
Zheng Zhenzhen nodded vigorously, she was almost familiar with Yun Qing's omniscience: "I was really scared to death just now!!"
"Speak slowly." Yun Qing reached out to pour water for her, but Zheng Zhenzhen stopped her.
"I'll do it myself." Zheng Zhenzhen took the square inch lamp in her hand and said a little embarrassedly, "It's too..."
Yun Qing was silent, and she didn't know what kind of spell she used, but she melted a cup of cold dew out of thin air without touching the square inch lamp.
Zheng Zhenzhen couldn't laugh or cry while holding the cold little lamp.
"Take the rootless water from the sky and the earth, and then use the big sun and black sky magic flame to remove the impurities, which is cleaner." Yun Qing explained, with a thought, the black flame circled around the small lamp, "There is nothing here It is reliable, I am afraid there will be problems if you eat and drink with those people every day."
Zheng Zhenzhen didn't expect Yun Qing to be so defensive. She looked at her speechlessly for a while, clutching the cup of hot water and said: "...Thank you."
"Go ahead." Yun Qing nodded, motioning for her to continue.
Zheng Zhenzhen was disturbed by her, and the fear in her heart had dissipated a lot. She said with a serious face: "I think there are living things in those boxes!"
"Why do you say that?" Yun Qing's expression was calm, and she couldn't tell whether she believed it or not.
"I heard it! There is something breathing inside, and the guards have been avoiding talking about the contents of the box!" Zheng Zhenzhen said excitedly.
Yun Qing comforted: "Okay, don't worry, what if it's a living thing? Can we let it go?"
"This..." Zheng Zhenzhen thinks about it carefully, who stipulates that live things cannot be placed in the cargo box? It is not impossible to hunt some rare animals from the mountains and sell them on the grasslands. But she still felt something was wrong in her heart, and that weak breathing echoed in her heart from time to time, making her covered in cold sweat.
"Still can't let go?" Seeing her tangled face, Yun Qing said, "Then let's go and explore tonight."
"Ah!?" Zheng Zhen really didn't expect Yun Qing to accompany her to do such a thing.
"I also want to know... what can survive for so long in such a completely closed environment."
Yun Qing smiled meaningfully.
Zheng Zhenzhen thought about it carefully, and felt even more frightened. If there was something alive in that cargo box, and there was no way to breathe or eat there, how did it survive
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"This... are we really going?"
The convoy camped at night and rested. Although it has not yet reached the depths of the grassland, there are also prairie wolves, so it is still very dangerous to travel at night.
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 had an open and frank look, as if she wasn't going to pry someone's cargo box at all, but to drop by. Aman was never in the state, and followed Yun Qing with a stupid look, and his footsteps shook the ground. Every time he took a step, Zheng Zhen's heart trembled. It was lucky for the guards not to wake up with such an earthquake-like movement.
"If you don't want to, then we'll go back." Yun Qing stopped, and now Zheng Zhenzhen scratched his heart and lungs even more.
She gritted her teeth and said, "I want to!"
Yun Qing said: "Lead the way, where is the box you mentioned?"
Zheng Zhenzhen walked around several bullock carts lightly, 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 there were six or seven such large boxes piled up in a bullock cart. According to Zheng Zhenzhen's description, the one she heard the voice today was probably in this cart.
"Do you want to get those outside out?" Zheng Zhenzhen looked back, Aman had already stepped forward to open the car door, and got the box down without any effort.
Zheng Zhenzhen was dumbfounded. Today several guards were so exhausted carrying a box, yet he could easily lift the box out with one hand.
"You stay with Amang, I'll go up and have a look." Yun Qing rubbed the square inch lamp and disappeared in place. Zheng Zhenzhen knew that she was going to get in the car.
But after Yun Qing entered, there was no movement at all, the moon outside was covered by dark clouds, and the surroundings were pitch black, Zheng Zhenzhen shivered when he heard the howling of wolves from nowhere.
"Yun Qing?" She lowered her voice and looked into the car.
It was dark inside, and Yun Qing's white sacrificial attire was particularly prominent. After Zheng Zhenzhen saw this scene, he realized that the darkness really has different degrees. There are still stars, lights, and moonlight in the darkness of the night, but the darkness that surrounds Yunqing is like an abyss that swallows the light. It really is a bit of color. not come out.
She was dressed in white, but she was wrapped in raging demonic flames, and she stood quietly in front of the box. At this time, the box fell to the outside, and a big black hole was opened by Yun Qing on the top.
"Don't come here." Yun Qing sighed.
But Zheng Zhenzhen had already walked to her side, and a stench came, Zheng Zhenzhen almost vomited out his breakfast.
This stench seemed to pass through her nose and penetrate directly into her brain, it was clear and terrifying. Zheng Zhenzhen felt that it was rotten and smelly like fresh meat that had been left for a few days in the extreme heat. Zheng Zhenzhen covered his nose, but the smell was sticky, pervasive and extremely pungent. She broke down and said, "What is this!"
"Don't come here." Yun Qing repeated this sentence, she raised her hand, and her wide sleeves with complicated patterns blocked Zheng Zhenzhen's sight.
"What the hell is it?" Zheng Zhenzhen couldn't help looking around curiously, but the black flames on Yun Qing's body swallowed the light, and she couldn't see anything.
"help me… "
A small voice came from the opening of the box, Zheng Zhenzhen couldn't stand when she heard this, she quickly walked around Yun Qing and went up.
A boy who was so dirty that he couldn't see a human figure crawled out of the big black hole. He was covered in dark and dirty mucus and all kinds of filth that could not be seen clearly. He was wearing a tattered garment that looked like a Taoist robe, his hair was disheveled, and his face could not be seen clearly. He was on all fours, crawling in a twisted posture.
"Ugh..." Zheng Zhenzhen covered his mouth and wanted to vomit, and the boy on the ground emitted a terrible stench.
"Are you okay?" Zheng Zhenzhen squatted down, wanting to see the boy's situation, but Yun Qing pulled him behind him in the next second.
Almost at the same time, the boy crawling on the ground rushed towards Zheng Zhenzhen like a beast. Through the disheveled hair, Zheng Zhenzhen hastily saw his scarlet eyes, which shone fiercely like hungry wolves.
"Aw!"
Yun Qing protected Zheng Zhenzhen with one hand, and held a square inch lamp in the other hand, and it was too late to execute the spell. She reacted very quickly, dragging Zheng Zhenzhen to avoid a step to the left, the boy kept on casting off, rushed out of the box, and brought out some scattered things while running.
Zheng Zhenzhen inadvertently glanced at the things on the ground, which were white bones with tooth marks.
"Hungry..." The boy made a vague voice, and rushed towards the two of them again.
The space in the car is too small to dodge, Yun Qing let go of Zheng Zhenzhen's hand, and pointed at her fingertips like lightning, the light of white jade crystallized at her fingertips. The virtue of a gentleman is quite restrained against evil things.
The young man took a step back in fear, but Yun Qing didn't want him to escape, and the square inch light shone brightly.
"The square is boundless, and the ground is a prison."
This is also the technique after entering the Tao, and it is the most essential use of Fang Cunzhan, separating the world from the earth. The envoy in white clothes of the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains used this trick on Yun Qing before, even with the help of the Heavenly Book, Yun Qing could only last for a short moment, but this moment is enough.
The young man was blocked by an invisible barrier, and his reaction was a bit slow. At this time, the Xuanyuanhuayushu in Yunqing's hand was stacked a few more times, and the original fingertip sword became about the same size as a real sword.
Yun Qing said with a smile: "It's better to die, you won't be hungry after you die."
As she spoke, black flames filled her body, and a black flame wrapped around the white jade sword, piercing the young man's scarlet left eye without hesitation, and the tip of the sword pierced out from the back of his head with dirty black mucus.
"Ah!!" Zheng Zhenzhen screamed, terrified.
Yun Qing dissipated the spell, Bai Yu and Hei Yan returned to the aura of heaven and earth, and a black liquid flowed out from the boy's brain, emitting a stench. The boy's whole body swelled up like a corpse that had rotted for a long time, the skin festered, and disgusting corpse fluid flowed out.
"This, this is..." Zheng Zhenzhen forced himself to calm down, "What is this?"
Yun Qing wiped the square inch lamp, thinking silently.
"Oh, you said this boy, he is a little 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 reclamation. Unfortunately, he was too stupid, so he died accidentally It's in your hands..."
Yun Qing turned her head when she heard the sound, and saw Yu Tu with a dark complexion standing outside the car, smiling gloomyly at them.