I didn't want to answer Wang Jiuyang's question, but his eyes were staring at me intently.
Helplessly, I had to explain, "Uncle Jiuyang, you are right. I did call my master just now. But that master and my Master Jiuzhen are not the same person. I have two masters, one is Jiang Jiuzhen, and the other is Zhang Chu."
But Wang Jiuyang still stared at me suspiciously.
He said in a deep voice: "Yang Tianyi, are you trying to deceive me? I tell you, disciples of our Tianzheng Sect can only have one master in their lifetime. Senior Brother Jiuzhen cannot forget this. So, what you said is simply a lie."
Wang Jiuyang's face was filled with irritation, and he said angrily: "Tell me, why did you lie to me and pretend to be Jiang Jiuzhen's apprentice? Also, where did you learn that 'Yin Yang Diagram' from?"
After hearing what Wang Jiuyang said, I felt bad. I didn't expect that I would be exposed all of a sudden. If Wang Jiuyang knew that Jiang Jiuzhen was not my master, I'm afraid he would harm me.
But after thinking about it, I came up with a solution.
I ignored Wang Jiuyang and suddenly burst into laughter.
Wang Jiuyang narrowed his eyes and asked me coldly, "Yang Tianyi, what do you mean? What are you laughing at?"
I curled my lips and said to Wang Jiuyang, "Uncle Jiuyang, I think you are mistaken. I really do have two masters. As for the rules of our Tianzheng Sect, my master Jiang Jiuzhen naturally knows them. But, you may have misunderstood. In fact, before I became my master's disciple, I already had a master. That was Zhang Chu."
"But I don't know why Jiang Jiuzhen wanted to accept me as his apprentice. Later, I heard my master mention it, and it seemed to be because of my pure yang constitution. After all, people with a constitution like mine are rare on Earth."
After listening to my explanation, Wang Jiuyang's frown slowly relaxed.
He asked me, "Really?"
I said, "Of course it's true. How could I possibly lie to you about this? But your attitude towards me just now really frightened me. I thought you were going to attack me."
After hearing what I said, Wang Jiuyang was stunned, and then a smile appeared on his face.
He reached out and patted my shoulder, smiling as hard as he could: "Haha, Tianyi, don't get me wrong, I was the one who was reckless just now. Since you already had a master before you became my senior brother's disciple, this makes sense."
In fact, Wang Jiuyang still had some doubts about what I said. But without evidence, he couldn't speculate. Besides, what I said was logical and there was nothing wrong with it.
Just as Wang Jiuyang and I were standing in the middle of the carriage door and talking, two people walked towards us.
A man with a dark red face, wearing coarse cloth clothes, cloth shoes on his feet, and holding a short bamboo pole in his hand.
Another person followed behind the dark-faced man. But he was wearing a straw hat, a mask covering his mouth, and sunglasses over his eyes. I couldn't see his face clearly.
The dark-faced man in front walked, and the man behind followed closely. The man behind was neither fast nor slow. In fact, I felt that the movements of the two people were very similar.
"Get out of the way and let us pass! Don't block the road."
The dark-red-faced man raised his yellow eyes and glanced at me and Wang Jiuyang.
Wang Jiuyang looked at the man and frowned again.
And I subconsciously moved a step to the side.
Seeing that Wang Jiuyang did not make way, the dark-red-faced man snorted coldly and glared at Wang Jiuyang fiercely with his eyes as sharp as a knife.
Wang Jiuyang raised his neck slightly, but did not make a sound.
Then the dark-red-faced man and the man with the straw hat behind him walked past Wang Jiuyang.
go.
When he came in front of me, the dark-red-faced man looked at me unhappily.
I couldn't block his way, so I moved to the side. But the dark-faced man passed by, but the man behind him accidentally stepped on my instep.
When that person's foot stepped on my foot, it felt heavy and painful. I also felt that the person's foot was like a piece of wood, and it was very painful.
My foot was stepped on, but the man didn't apologize to me and just kept walking forward.
Seeing this, I felt very angry. I thought that person was very rude.
"Hey! Brother, you stepped on my foot!"
I said unhappily.
But the man still ignored me.
At that moment, I was furious. Then, I raised my hand and pulled the shoulder of the man behind the dark-faced man.
I want that person to apologize to me.
But what I didn’t expect was that just after I twisted the man’s shoulder, he actually fell backwards stiffly.
I was startled and quickly dodged to the side. I was afraid it was a scam.
There was only a muffled "bang" sound, and the man fell straight to the ground.
"this... ... "
I stuttered for a moment and couldn't speak.
I quickly reached out and grabbed the hand of the person lying on the ground, trying to pull him up.
But what I didn't expect was that when my hand touched the man's pale palm, I felt a chill. And the man's palm, like his legs and feet, gave me a chilling feeling.
"Brother, wake up! I'm sorry, I didn't mean it..."
I didn't think much about it, I just thought that I couldn't let him fall to the ground like this, I had to go over and help him up.
But just as I stretched out my hands, "Snap!" and "Snap!" sounds were heard, and a bamboo stick hit the back of my hands respectively.
"Ouch! It hurts!" I screamed.
"Kid, what are you doing? Don't touch my friend!"
At this time, the dark-red-faced man walking in front had turned around.
The man who just beat me with a bamboo stick was him.
The back of my hand hurt, and I shouted, "Hey! What are you doing? Didn't you see that the man fell down? I was just helping him up, why did you hit me?!"
But the dark-red-faced man seemed to be deaf and ignored me.
What surprised me was that the man lying on the ground wearing a straw hat and sunglasses didn't even pay any attention to me.
This made me feel angry.
Too lazy to pay attention to these two people, I stepped back and stood in the smoking area.
Wang Jiuyang squinted his eyes and stared at the two people, watching.
At this time, the dark-red-faced man had already helped up the man who fell to the ground. The dark-red-faced man was muttering something.
Soon, slowly, the dark-red-faced man carried the man who had fallen to the ground on his back and left the car door.
I turned around and looked at Wang Jiuyang, but saw that Wang Jiuyang's eyes were still observing the figures of the two people leaving.
The dark-red-faced man was already carrying the fallen person on his back and walking away.
"Uncle Jiuyang, what's wrong with you?"
I asked.
Wang Jiuyang then retracted his gaze and said, "Tianyi, don't you think those two people are weird? The dark-faced man in front is okay, but the man following behind him gives me a weird feeling."
"It feels weird!? How weird?"
I recalled the time when the man stepped on my foot. Indeed, that man was a bit strange. He stepped on me and didn't apologize. He even left without saying a word.
He fell to the ground, but he didn't scream or shout, as if he didn't feel any pain.
But what Wang Jiuyang said next made me feel nervous.
Wang Jiuyang thought for a moment and said to me, "I think that person may be dead."
"Dead? You mean, that person is not a living person, but a corpse?"
When I said this, I felt a chill down my spine.
"How is this possible? Uncle Jiuyang, are you seeing things?"
Wang Jiuyang shook his head and said, "It shouldn't be wrong, because I didn't sense any vitality from the second person."
Speaking of this, Wang Jiuyang seemed to have thought of something.
He suddenly looked at me and said, "By the way, Tianyi, didn't you just touch the palm of the fallen man? Stretch out your hand so I can see it."
I nodded and stretched out my hand.
Wang Jiuyang took out a small transparent porcelain bottle from his pocket.
I don't know what kind of thing was contained in the porcelain bottle, and its color was purple-red.
Then Wang Jiuyang poured some liquid from the small porcelain bottle into my palm.
At the same time, he used his hand to spread the semen evenly on my palm.
When I applied the liquid to my palm, it felt a little warm.
Half a minute later, I found that there were a lot of black spots on the palm of my right hand.
"How... could this happen?"
"Uncle Jiuyang, what is that thing of yours?"
I asked in surprise. I didn't know what was happening on my palm.
Wang Jiuyang explained: "That is the saliva of the 'ghost fish', which is used to identify corpse qi. You see there are so many black spots on your hands, those black spots are the marks formed by corpse qi, which were contaminated on you after you touched the corpse just now."
"It is impossible for a normal corpse to have this phenomenon. Only corpses that have been raised will have corpse qi. Therefore, I have now determined that the person who fell to the ground just now is dead, and has been dead for a long time, and has been raised as a zombie."
"What? He's been dead for a long time and he's been raised as a zombie!"
I was shocked.
When I turned around and looked inside the carriage again, I found that the dark-red-faced man and the "person" he was carrying had disappeared in the aisle of the carriage. I didn't know where they went.
Wang Jiuyang continued, "And the man with a dark red face walking in the front is the owner of the zombie, a corpse breeder."
I know the term "corpse raiser" because my cheap master Zhang Quezi is a corpse raiser himself.
I thought about it and asked Wang Jiuyang, "Uncle Jiuyang, what should we do? The corpse breeder appeared on the train. Maybe he has other purposes. Should we find him out?"
But Wang Jiuyang shook his head and said, "No, not here. After all, that man is carrying a zombie. Once we expose him, he might control the zombie to hurt other people."
"So we can't act rashly! Besides, it's possible that the corpse breeder wants to take the zombie somewhere. Since they're not harming anyone, let's just ignore them for now. Maybe they'll get off the train at the next stop."
After thinking about it, I felt that Wang Jiuyang said a lot.
"Well, let's let that guy go for once."
After hearing what I said, Wang Jiuyang looked at me and said meaningfully, "Tianyi, sometimes even if you are a ghost-catching Taoist priest, there are many things you can't control. For example, the man just now was indeed raising corpses, but he didn't harm anyone, so you can't say he is a bad person."
"It's good to hate evil, but you have to know your limits."
After saying this, Wang Jiuyang turned around and walked towards our carriage.
(to be continued)
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