After hearing what I said, the red umbrella ghost was unmoved. She raised her eyebrows and questioned us: "Who are you two? Why did you come to our Hongxiang Village? You are not welcome here!"
Hongxiang Village? It seems to be the name of this stone village.
My master Zhang Chu snorted coldly, walked up to me and said, "It doesn't matter who we are. What matters is that these people are dead, and you have also become a ghost. If you don't return to the underworld as soon as possible, I'm afraid you will have to stay in the world of the living and become a wandering ghost."
At this point, my master Zhang Chu softened his tone and said, "Young lady, I advise you to go to the underworld. You can't handle these corpses. Just leave them to us. We will handle them properly."
But the Red Umbrella Ghost still stood in front of us stubbornly, and said sternly: "No! I won't let you move these corpses. The Heavenly Witch once said that these corpses have been infected with diseases, and only water burial can eliminate the evil effects on them."
Tian Wu? What is that? It sounds like a person's name.
I looked at my master Zhang Chu in confusion, and he whispered, "Tian Wu should be a kind of 'witch' in Xiangxi, similar to the 'great gods' in the northeast. They know a little bit about yin and yang, but that's all."
But now, regardless of whether they are "witches" from Xiangxi or not, it is still urgent to deal with these corpses. You know, those corpse worms rely on these corrupt corpses to reproduce. If these corpses are still left here, who knows how many corpse worms will be produced.
It would be terrible if these corpse worms left this cave one day in the future and were misled by someone.
Seeing that the red umbrella ghost was not willing to listen, my master Zhang Chu immediately became angry and instructed me, "Tianyi, ignore her words. Take care of this ghost first, and then we will deal with these corpses."
I nodded, having already thought of this in mind.
Although this female ghost with a red umbrella is very beautiful, humans and ghosts have different paths, so it’s not my fault.
The ghostly aura of the red umbrella ghost suddenly emerged. The red oil umbrella in her hand also emitted a red light, which was like the color of blood, and it looked particularly bright under the dim light at the top of the space.
Before I could do anything, the ghost girl's soul flashed a few times, picked up the red oil umbrella, and rushed towards me.
I quickly took out the exorcism talisman from my waist, chanted the spell, and threw it out.
At the same time, I drew out my Seven-Star Dragon Abyss Sword and stepped on the Seven-Star Gang Step.
The exorcist talisman hit the red oil umbrella directly and immediately caught fire.
But what I didn't expect was that the red oil umbrella suddenly spun rapidly, and directly threw the ghost-exorcising talisman on the red oil umbrella to the side.
I was surprised. I didn't expect that this red oil umbrella had such power. It seemed to be just as I learned from the forum. It should be an "evil umbrella" or a ghost weapon.
The ghost girl's soul appeared in front of me, and I swept the Seven-Star Dragon Abyss Sword in my hand. Red light flashed!
With a "swish" sound, the long nails on the red umbrella ghost's fingers hit the Seven-Star Dragon Abyss Sword.
Perhaps she had not expected the Seven-Star Dragon Abyss Sword to be so powerful, and the Red Umbrella Ghost was actually knocked away by the Seven-Star Dragon Abyss Sword, along with the red oil umbrella in her hand.
With a "Ugh!" sound, the ghost girl's soul actually drilled directly into the red oil umbrella.
The red oil umbrella was folded and shot upside down towards the stone house.
What I didn't expect was that under the Sky Eye, the red umbrella began to bleed. The blood kept dripping into the yellow water in the stone house. Then, a series of mysterious spells came out from the red umbrella. It sounded like the female ghost.
After the spell, a "rustling" sound came from inside the stone house.
I took a look and thought it was not good.
The corpses actually stood up from the yellow water, they broke free of their restraints, and looked at me and my master with empty eyes. Then, regardless of anything, they quickly crawled out of the yellow water in the stone house.
My scalp felt numb.
It seems that the spells just now were used by the red umbrella ghost to summon these dead bodies. And she successfully awakened all the dead bodies.
The red umbrella slowly opened at this time, and the female ghost in red appeared above the stone house.
She stared at us coldly and said, "You want to destroy this place, right? Then I will let both of you die here."
I turned my head to look at my master Zhang Chu and asked, "Master, what should we do? These corpses have resurrected."
My master retorted, "They are not resurrected, but controlled by some kind of witchcraft. However, these corpses no longer have much corpse qi, so even if they attack, they won't be that fierce. For a ghost-catching Taoist like you, it won't be a problem to deal with them."
I felt bitter in my heart. It seemed that my master Zhang Chu was using me as a scapegoat again.
Well, after all, he is the master and I am the apprentice.
After thinking about it, I took out a long ball of black ink line from my cloth bag.
The ink line is very useful for dealing with zombies, but I have never used it before. I thought it would be no problem to deal with these rotten corpses now.
So I found the ink line.
At this time, the corpses that had crawled out of the stone house had slowly stood up. Their legs and feet slowly approached me. Their bodies were wet, and I even saw a lot of corpse worms burrowing in their bodies, which was very scary.
The female ghost with the red umbrella above the stone house said in a cold voice: "Kill them both! They want to destroy our Hongxiang Village."
The words of the red umbrella ghost girl were like imperial decrees to those rotting corpses and were very effective.
The corpses seemed to be staggering and dragging their feet before, but now they have become a little ferocious.
The corpse closest to me, whose face had been rotten on half side, rushed towards me with bared teeth. His hands were no longer fleshy, only sticking bones.
The bones were barely connected together.
My master Zhang Chu saw the corpses coming and urged me, "Tianyi, what are you waiting for? Go and deal with the corpses."
I gritted my teeth and rushed forward with the Seven Star Steps. I threw my ink line directly onto a corpse and entangled it. At the same time, I began to dodge and move among the corpses.
Although the movements of those corpses were much faster, they were still very slow compared to my Seven Star Steps.
Soon, dozens of zombies were entangled by my ink line and tied together tightly.
The ink line was really effective in restraining them. As soon as the corpse touched the ink line, a "sizzling" sound came from it.
The sound was like the sound of grilling meat.
Suddenly, a sticky smell emanated from the group of rotting corpses. The bound corpses began to tremble all over, and their bones seemed to be broken.
Some of the corpses had their arms entangled in the ink line, and they actually managed to free their arms from the line.
Seeing this, the rotten corpses that had just crawled out of the yellow water in the stone house all retreated and dared not rush up again.
For a moment, the corpses were trapped in a small area. The corpses in front could not enter, and the corpses behind were blocked there.
When the female ghost with the red umbrella on top of the stone house saw this, there was a look of surprise but also a bit of ferocity in her eyes.
"Who are you? Why do you know how to control these corpses?"
The red umbrella ghost asked in a deep voice.
I raised the corner of my mouth slightly and said with a smile: "Girl, let me tell you, my master is a corpse raiser, and I am a ghost catcher. It is no problem for the two of us to deal with your ghost tricks."
"A Taoist ghost catcher?"
As if she knew about this business, there was a hint of timidity in the ghost girl's eyes.
She asked in a deep voice: "Are you here to arrest me?"
After hearing this, I said bluntly, "No, you are wrong. We just found this place based on clues. We didn't know there was a little devil like you here before. But don't worry, we really have no bad intentions. We are here just to find the source of the corpse."
"You should know that the corpse worms born from the rotting corpses in the stone house of Hongxiang Village have already parasitized in the body of a kind of black fish. The black fish will swim outside the stone cave. Once they are caught by humans outside the stone cave, the corpse worms will enter the human body and corrode the human body."
"So, girl, we are here for these corpses. We will not leave here until we get rid of them. Otherwise, we will not leave. If you insist on stopping us, then we, the master and disciple, will have no choice but to capture you first."
When the red umbrella female ghost heard what I said, a look of hesitation appeared on her face.
She murmured, "But the witch said that only river water can purify the evil effects of these corpses. You may not know that many years before you came here, the people of our Hongxiang Village all died slowly in the stone cave here because of a disease."
"The disease causes people to cough and then vomit blood until they become weak and die."
As she spoke of this, tears appeared in the eyes of the female ghost.
She cried continuously and continued, "My elder brother Nangong Yang was the head of Hongxiang Village at that time. Later, he left here to find a cure for this disease."
"But, it's been so many years. My elder brother Nangong Yang still hasn't shown up... This red oil umbrella is what he gave me. He said that he would hold a wedding with me after all the villagers were cured. But I've waited for so many years, and he still hasn't shown up."
The red umbrella ghost girl was probably too sad, so she told me everything that happened here, in Hongxiang Village.
She spoke in such sorrow that I felt uncomfortable listening to her.
I can feel that the female ghost has an extremely passionate love for the man named Nangong Yang.
Then I understood why they came here and why these people died.
(to be continued)
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