The people below couldn't keep their eyes on Lu Yingjiu.
It turned slowly.
As that cold gaze swept across the earth, the yin energy became thicker.
Then, his eyes slowly closed.
This time there were no attendants, and the whole city was filled with gloom.
As Jing Xian said, the yin energy that caused the hundreds of ghosts to be restless started from the eighteen layers of the abyss in the ghost world and surged upward layer by layer. During this process, the priests would come forward to stop it, and in the end only 20% to 30% of the ghosts would come to the human world.
The flow of time in the ghost world is slower than that in the human world.
According to past experience, a large group of ghosts takes seven or eight hours to reach the human world, so in the mortal world, the exorcists have about six hours of buffer time.
In other words, Lu Yingjiu and Shijia can reach their destination in 6 hours, but Jing Xian has to leave now.
Standing on the balcony, the two looked at the gloomy sky.
It's windy, but there's no rain.
Looking ahead, there were already dense raindrops and thunder and lightning at the other end of the city. The rain was spreading rapidly, and it would not be long before it would descend on their heads with thicker black clouds.
It's a strange feeling, like watching a tsunami approaching but being unable to do anything about it.
Lu Yingjiu turned his head to look at Jing Xian and said, "You should hurry back."
Jing Xian: "I'll come back to find you after I finish dealing with this wave of ghosts. Follow me."
"Yeah. Go ahead."
Jing Xian looked at him deeply, took a half step forward, and gave him a hug.
This hug was hard.
Lu Yingjiu also hugged him back vigorously.
When they parted, there was no need for them to say anything more.
Jing Xian was surrounded by a cold wind, and the door to the ghost world suddenly opened. He stepped in and was swallowed by the darkness. Lu Yingjiu turned and went downstairs. When he reached the basement, he saw a brand new supercar in the corner.
Get in the car and step on the accelerator.
Vehicles were speeding on the deserted streets, facing the heavy rain.
The phone screen lit up, with a simple message: Landing location: 130 kilometers north of Lujiang City, near Luming Expressway
At the same time, members of the noble families have rushed to various locations to prepare to invite the gods.
Lu Yingjiu had a blank expression on his face.
The car was speeding up, breaking through the wind and rain, and turned into a flash of lightning and rushed towards the edge of the city.
…
Although they have a 6-hour buffer time, in reality, little monsters have begun to appear in various places.
The little ghosts have little killing power and will only wander the streets. Any exorcist can drive them away.
But if ordinary people encounter it, it may still be dangerous.
An extreme rain warning had been issued, but perhaps because the rain was not too heavy, Lu Yingjiu could still see people on the street. He stopped the car several times along the way, chased away two or three little ghosts, and asked passers-by to go home quickly.
Soon, a ban on driving throughout the city was issued.
He never saw pedestrians again.
“Crack!”
The old trees on the roadside had their branches broken off and fell on the road. Someone's flower pot was blown down and the fragments were scattered all over the ground.
All the doors and windows were tightly closed, and it was dark all around, but it was still dark. If it weren't for the light shining through the curtains, Lu Yingjiu would have felt that there was no one else alive in the world except him.
Once we got on the highway, the rain hit the glass and the noise was overwhelming.
No matter how bright the car lights were, they couldn't illuminate the darkness. He threw out dozens of talisman papers, which burned brightly in front of the car, guiding the way.
After an unknown amount of time, Lu Yingjiu vaguely saw the outline of a huge figure.
The outline is only a vague black shadow in the air, outlining the shape of a door - this is the landing point of the Night Parade of One Hundred Demons, and only exorcists can detect it.
Right below the landing point was a factory, and the workers had left long ago.
Lu Yingjiu drove down the nearest ramp and entered the factory. From a distance, he saw dozens of cars gathered together with their headlights on.
However, other exorcists arrived earlier than him and were busy setting up formations to prepare for the frenzy.
They screamed at the top of their lungs in the heavy rain.
"We are still short of thirteen pieces of talisman paper in the east! East!"
"The formation has been drawn up! Can the people within a radius of 50 kilometers be evacuated?!"
"Old Zhao, Old Zhao, come over here!"
It was noisy and noisy.
Lu Yingjiu got off the car without even bothering to open an umbrella and was immediately soaked.
He walked over in the rain, but someone hurried by and grabbed him with one hand: "Where are you from? No one else should come...ah."
The man quickly recognized Lu Yingjiu, let go of his hand, and looked surprised and delighted.
Lu Yingjiu asked: "Who is your temporary commander?"
"It's... it's Shao Hong." the man replied.
"I understand. You go and get busy." Lu Yingjiu nodded.
Shao Hong is the exorcist in Lujiang City and used to be Lu Yingjiu's subordinate.
When Lu Ying arrived at the place with the most people, he saw a familiar figure directing everyone.
He stood aside for a while.
After Shao Hong finished explaining the matter, he turned around and was stunned when he saw him: "Hey, why are you here?" He rubbed his hands excitedly, "That's great, you've been a great help."
Lu Yingjiu said: "I will help set up the formation, but I will only stay until the ghosts erupt."
Shao Hong was stunned: "Where are you going now?"
"I don't know either." Lu Yingjiu said.
Only after the formation is set up can he know the location of the path and move forward.
Shao Hong obviously didn't understand, and Lu Yingjiu patted him on the shoulder: "Hurry up and work."
In the following time, Lu Yingjiu helped to arrange the talisman paper.
Three or four hours later, countless arrays were densely packed around the landing point, and surging power was boiling in it. More and more exorcists came over and started their work in an orderly manner, acting according to the plan.
It looks like nothing happened to him.
Lu Yingjiu then entered a warehouse, where there were exorcists taking a rest in groups of three or four.
He drank the hot tea handed to him, changed into dry clothes, and sat in the corner.
The wind, the rain, and the sound of people talking at the top of their lungs could still be heard.
He knew that at this moment, others were also fighting hard to "survey" the core of the formation - and they might have been attacked by the servants.
At this critical moment, Lu Yingjiu didn't dare to disturb them casually. No matter how anxious and worried he was, he could only report the situation to them.
Half an hour ago, Ye Feng sent him a text message, saying that the Ye family was already in place. Zhang Shuwan would also appear in the mirror at the last moment and go to Kangli Bridge.
As for the other two families, there has been no news so far.
Lu Yingjiu wiped the rain off her face with the back of her hand and looked through the text messages.
Chen Zheng's text message was left four hours ago: We are ready to set off for the port
Chu Banyang's text message was three hours ago: Just got off the plane
He watched silently for a while, put away his phone, leaned against the wall and closed his eyes.
After 40 minutes, the phone vibrated slightly.
He immediately opened his eyes alertly and regained consciousness in a second.
In the text message, Chen Zheng: We have arrived at the location. We have just finished fighting with the servants and are resting.
It seemed like they were fine, and Lu Yingjiu breathed a sigh of relief.
Only the Chu family is left.
However, there has been no news from Chu Banyang.
The water flows together and falls from the top of the warehouse like a waterfall.
Lu Yingjiu slowly closed his eyes and continued to rest.
Another half hour passed.
"boom!!!"
There was a loud thunder and the earth was shaking.
In the air below, the vague black outline was surging, as if something was about to break free.
Everyone looked up.
I saw countless ghost hands slowly emerging from the dark clouds and the void!
At first they were not dead, just like dead branches, half hanging in the air.
But within a few seconds, they began to move.
First, the knuckles slowly curled up and loosened, then the wrists turned. At a certain moment, pale lightning struck, and they suddenly swung wildly!
Densely packed and layered.
The whole sky was filled with ghost hands and scarlet pupils, and the howling and screaming intertwined, converging into a nightmare-like wave. The exorcist had never seen such a scene, his scalp tingled, and he subconsciously retreated repeatedly.
The time has come. If we don't act now, it will be too late.
There is still no news about Chu Banyang.
Lu Yingjiu clenched his phone tightly, took a quick look at it, then stood up and walked out of the warehouse.
In his hand, he held a piece of extremely complicated talisman paper, stained with a few streaks of blood. The bright red was particularly obvious against the iron-blue background. Lu Yingjiu spent two months to clearly draw these talisman papers that activated the "Exploration".
As soon as it entered the wind and rain, the talisman paper began to float, struggling extremely vigorously in its hands, resonating with the outbreak point.
"Hey! Where are you going?!" Shao Hong shouted.
"Don't worry about me." Lu Yingjiu waved his hand and went straight into the most violent part of the storm.
He stood under the swarm of ghosts, took a deep breath, and made a decision -
The talisman paper burst out with bright light!
With the explosion point as the center, golden and white runes spread out endlessly.
Countless complex and beautiful curves intertwined with each other, and countless straight lines shot straight into the distance. It was impossible to see where the border was, and within the suburbs of dozens of kilometers, only dazzling light illuminated the darkness.
Several people stepped back, fearing that they had stepped on the runes on the ground, and they were all terrified.
Shao Hong was stunned and subconsciously took a few steps forward: "You are..."
Lu Yingjiu didn't have the heart to answer him.
The light surges.
From a very far distance, three more rays of light came running in the opposite direction and merged into the center of the formation.
It was the ghosts and gods invited by the Ye, Chen and Zhang families.
The strong wind blew up Lu Yingjiu's clothes, and the talisman paper burned between his fingers. It was very strenuous to maintain this formation, but after just a few seconds, he was sweating profusely.
There's no time.
In another half a minute, or even ten seconds, those ghosts will come out.
Lu Yingjiu was almost anxious.
He was not anxious about the formation, but was worried about what happened to the Chu family.
Are Chu Banyang and the others really still alive
He took deep breaths again and again, trying to calm himself down, but he was unable to dispel the dark cloud in his heart.
Ghosts and monsters were surging in the air, struggling constantly.
The exorcists were on full alert. Shao Hong looked at Lu Yingjiu anxiously. He didn't understand what the formation was and was hesitating whether he should approach it.
The ghost's neck was exposed, followed by its shoulders, chest and waist. It leaned forward, scratching and screaming. A few drops of black blood fell from below and landed on Lu Ying's clothes.
It’s too late!
The ghosts are pouring out!!
Suddenly, the sky and the ground were filled with evil spirits, with green faces and fangs, and they surrounded Lu Yingjiu in an instant, making it dark and overwhelming. Lu Yingjiu's face was gloomy, and just as he was about to extinguish the talisman paper, the ghost in front of him suddenly broke into two pieces.
A dazzling light came from afar, breaking through the obstacles with ease.
The evil spirit was no match for its sharp edge and turned into ashes.
The largest ray of light went straight to the center of the formation.
It illuminated Lu Yingjiu's eyes, and also illuminated the joy in his eyes.
Chu Banyang and his team succeeded!
When it finally merged, the four light patterns completely filled the formation. The talisman paper in Lu Yingjiu's hand burned more fiercely, and the flames shot up -
The heat wave hit me in the face. The glow illuminated the sky below.
Then came a feeling of distortion.
All the thunder, lightning and solid earth disappeared, the beams of the house moved away, the hands of the hour stopped turning, and the expressions of the people around, including the shock and uneasiness on their faces, gradually dimmed.
The rain stopped falling, as if wiped away by an invisible hand. The wind stopped blowing, as if someone had locked it in a prison of silence. The whole world was dead silent, still, and lifeless.
Lu Yingjiu looked around in confusion.
It was pitch black before my eyes, and I couldn't see my hand in front of me.
"Plop, plop, plop—"
"Plop, plop, plop—"
It was the heartbeat that resounded through his eardrums, resonating with his chest cavity, and every beat made his soul tremble.
My thoughts seemed to be frozen.
Lu Yingjiu reacted slowly for a while before realizing:
This heavy, lingering feeling is exactly the beating of his own heart.