The road to the mountain was just as wet, winding and bumpy as before.
Apart from the fact that two people were missing, not much had changed.
However, Chen Ling felt cold all the time. The cold air came up from the ground, crawled up along his calves to his vest. This collided with the nervousness in his heart, making him break out in a cold sweat.
The cold sweat makes clothes sticky and clings to the body, which is very uncomfortable.
Chen Ling took a deep breath and closed his eyes.
What he saw with his mind was the same as what he saw with his physical eyes; he was definitely still in the forest.
He opened his eyes and continued to move forward, while listening to his surroundings with his ears perked up. The fallen leaves under his feet were dead, and the birds that should have been flying in the mountains were also dead. Everything around him was silent, as if the whole world had turned into the most illusory illusion.
Chen Ling suddenly stopped. This scene was too familiar. He remembered it clearly. The exact same picture and scene happened the day after his eighteenth birthday.
Because he started school early, he was already a sophomore at the time. He had no classes on Thursday afternoon, so he made an appointment with his classmates to go hiking nearby.
The mountain has no name and no formal management, but because it is the closest to the school, students often go there to relax, sketch, or date. Occasionally, when they are in the mood, they will take the rented barbecue grill, bring the skewers, and go to the platform on the top of the mountain to barbecue and drink beer.
Chen Ling remembered that just as they climbed up the mountain, a classmate complained of stomachache, saying that he had eaten something bad the day before and had forgotten to bring medicine.
There were six of us in the group, and everyone was exhausted and out of breath. We looked at each other, not wanting to go back to the foot of the mountain.
Chen Ling thought that the mountain was not high anyway and it would not take long to climb up and down, so he offered to go down the mountain and help buy some medicine at the small clinic at the foot of the mountain.
Everyone readily agreed and kept reminding us to be careful on the road.
Chen Ling took a bottle of water from his classmate and left. His mood did not become bad because of this incident. On the contrary, without the noise of fighting and laughter, he felt quite comfortable.
The descent was smooth, but the problem occurred on the way back.
The university he attended was not in the north city, but in the neighboring province. The weather there was always changing, especially in the summer.
When we were halfway there, the sky was suddenly covered with dark clouds and sparse raindrops suddenly fell.
At first he didn't care, thinking that the sky was so clear before, it might just be a passing cloud and rain that would soon be gone.
However, things were not so lucky. The raindrops were getting bigger and bigger, and it actually hurt. He covered his head with a plastic bag containing medicine and quickened his pace.
He ran and ran, but found that he could not reach the top of the mountain. Thinking he was lost, he shouted his classmates' names at the top of his voice.
The sound of the rain was so loud that my voice was drowned out as soon as it came out.
Chen Ling was a little flustered. He was considering whether he should find a place to hide from the rain first, when he suddenly heard voices.
He looked back and found that a classmate who was supposed to be at the top of the mountain had appeared on the mountain road in front of him at some point.
The man walked very slowly, with his back hunched and his wet hair disheveled.
Chen Ling hurriedly chased forward, still shouting the other person's name.
"That's strange. Why don't you answer me? Didn't you hear me?" He muttered to himself, and his pace became faster.
Finally, he caught up with the man and reached out to grab his clothes.
Just as it was about to hit, the heavy rain suddenly stopped, but the dark clouds covering the mountains and forests did not disperse, making the surroundings dark and gray.
Chen Ling withdrew his gaze from the sky and found that the person in front of him had disappeared.
His heart started beating rapidly and goose bumps appeared on the back of his neck. He suddenly thought of an accident that had happened on this mountain.
After the accident, the police found a female corpse halfway up the mountain based on clues.
The girl was a mountain climbing enthusiast. Due to her busy studies, she had neither the opportunity nor the time to visit the steep peaks in the neighboring city, so she took advantage of her free time to come to the suburbs.
The weather was not good that day and it was raining.
The mountain road was soft and slippery after being soaked by rain, and she accidentally fell down the mountain.
After all, the girl was Chen Ling's senior. She was pretty and had excellent academic performance. So after the incident, the accident was discussed crazily in the school forum, and people lamented the beauty's tragic fate in a half-hearted manner.
Chen Ling remembered very clearly that someone in the forum said that the senior student did not die immediately after rolling down the mountain.
She climbed the mountain trail for a long time, her blood dyed the nearby plants red, but in the end, because no one found her, she died of excessive bleeding on the way.
The incident caused a lot of uproar, and the senior's parents even went to the school to make a fuss about it. It was hard for Chen Ling to forget it.
Under the influence of memories, Chen Ling really began to be afraid. His parents both believed in God and feared ghosts. Influenced by this, even though he did not really believe in the existence of ghosts, he always held a fearful attitude.
Now when I encounter such a strange scene, the first thought that comes to my mind is: I’ve seen a ghost.
Thinking of what his parents often said, "If you don't do anything wrong, you don't have to worry about ghosts knocking on your door, and if you are upright, no ghosts can bully you," he began to recite the core values in his shaking voice.
There are twenty-four words in total, and they disappear after you finish reading them.
Chen Ling was still afraid, so he had no choice but to start reciting Mao Zedong Thought aloud. In order to hide his fear, he spoke so loudly that the whole forest could hear his voice.
The surroundings were completely quiet, so quiet that he could clearly hear his own echo.
Gradually, Chen Ling couldn't recite any more, and his fingertips began to tremble with fear.
Because he found that when he stepped on leaves, dry branches, or even accidentally stepped into the grass beside the mountain path, no sound was made.
The sky was getting darker and darker without him noticing. He looked back and saw that the mountain road was obscured by the sudden thick fog and was almost invisible.
Looking back, it seems that only the road ahead is clear, as if if I follow it, I can really find a way out.
At that time, Chen Ling had never seen a ghost, let alone had no experience fighting against evil spirits. Apart from fear, the only thought in his mind was to escape.
He ran madly, but accidentally stepped on something and fell.
With a loud crash, Chen Ling looked up in shock and saw someone rolling down from above.
The man rolled down very quickly and was hit many times by tree trunks and protruding rocks on the ground until he was stopped by a large rock below.
It was not until then that Chen Ling saw clearly that the man was wearing a pink windbreaker and his backpack was thrown out and fell into the grass next to him.
He didn't dare to move, and remembered the photos posted by his senior roommate on the forum.
That was a photo she took with her roommate before she went out, and then posted on WeChat Moments. It was also posted on the forum after her death. She was wearing exactly this outfit!
Chen Ling didn't dare to look any further and started running again, but he heard a rustling sound in the nearby grass, as if something was being dragged across the grass...
Rustle, rustle, rustle—
Rustle, rustle—
The long-lost friction sound buried deep in memory rang out.
Chen Ling looked towards the source of the sound suddenly, and then he realized that he was so absorbed in his memories that he had forgotten that he was in trouble.
The yin energy here is too strong and can easily disturb one's mind. He rubbed his face vigorously and moved his stiff muscles.
The rustling sound continued. Chen Ling narrowed his eyes slightly and saw a pink ball wriggling in the grass.
The color that seemed cute and soft on ordinary days was extremely strange at this moment, especially when Chen Ling saw that the bright pink was stained with dark red blood.
He gripped the curse whip tightly and walked over slowly.
A faint hoarse voice was heard coming from the ground: "Help me... I'm in so much pain, my stomach hurts... I'm bleeding so much..."
Chen Ling's scalp tingled as these words overlapped with his memory again.
Many people in the school knew about the ghost encounter halfway up the mountain. He was so scared at the time that he told everything to his classmates.
During that time, he was not in his right mind at all. He wanted to stay in his dorm room for 24 hours a day without going out. Some people said he was crazy and even knocked on his door in the middle of the night to scare him.
Fortunately, he worked hard and was mentally strong. After being scared for another half a month, he resumed his study life with the amulet his parents asked for from the temple.
Could it be that someone investigated him behind his back, deliberately recreated the past scene, and then moved the senior student over
Isn't this sick
It's immoral to force people to travel long distances when they are already dying.
Chen Ling was confused and curious, so he took bigger steps, but after only three or two steps he stopped in front of the pink ball.
The senior sister's face was scratched with many large and small cuts as she rolled down, her skin was torn and her limbs were hanging on the ground with twisted joints. She had to crawl on the ground on her knees and forequarters to move.
She raised her head and stared at the young man with her blood-stained eyes: "Save me... I'm in so much pain..."
Chen Ling just lowered his head and looked at her.
The senior student used her arms to support her upper body. Chen Ling noticed that her arm was broken, with bones sticking out and the white bones horribly exposed.
"Won't you save me?" The senior student's miserable expression changed, and she stood up from the ground. Because of the damage to her joints and bones, her posture was crooked, and every movement made her bones make a creaking sound.
Chen Ling took a step back, and the red tassel on the curse whip fell on the grass, ready to move.
The senior student took a step forward in a strange posture, her red pupils shrank into a dot, her body twitched, and an even stronger yin energy burst out from her body than before.
"I still remember you. I let you run away last time. It won't be so easy this time." She smiled and was about to say something when her face suddenly changed.
Chen Ling noticed that the ground beneath his feet was shaking, and some trees in the forest were also slowly moving.
"Someone is forcibly breaking the formation!" The senior sister narrowed her eyes in resentment, "I underestimated you."
As if she was extremely hungry, she licked her tongue greedily, her messy hair suddenly stretched out, and she quickly crawled along the ground to Chen Ling's feet, trying to wrap herself around him.
Chen Ling jumped up quickly, turned around and climbed onto a big rock nearby. He swung the curse whip out and it got tangled with the senior sister's hair.
He gritted his teeth and pulled hard towards himself, but instead of dragging the female ghost towards him, he pulled her head off.
In surprise, the head opened its mouth and extended its tongue, attacking him directly in the face.
Chen Ling had no time to dodge, but he was lucky because the ground was shaking and he didn't stand firmly, so he just dodged a little and let the tongue wrap around his neck.
Although there was no damage to his face, it was still disgusting enough.
He felt the tip of the tongue still extending, reaching towards his mouth.
Damn it, only my ancestors can touch my mouth!
Chen Ling was furious. He turned his wrist and the curse whip loosened the hair, but in the next second, it wrapped around the head again.
As the tip of her tongue got closer and closer to the young man's mouth, the senior sister's eyes opened wider and wider, and her emotions were twisted with excitement. As long as she put her tongue into his mouth, she could eat the fresh intestines inside.
She would eat the heart first, then the lungs and liver, and finally the brain...
Her facial features were distorted with excitement, and the cut on her skin opened wider. The black blood solidified the moment it gushed out.
Soon, the tip of the tongue reached the edge of the lower lip. Just a little closer and it would be within reach!
She opened her mouth, showing her teeth, but her crazy expression suddenly froze.
The long whip wrapped around her head suddenly tightened. The severe pain made her retract her tongue and scream in unbearable pain.
Chen Ling's expression was cold. He turned his head and wiped his mouth on his shoulder with great effort. "Who brought you to Fengling Mountain?"
Knowing that the other party would not answer immediately, he pulled hard, and the whip wrapped around the senior sister's head became tighter. Her skin was burned by the whip and was smoking, and her bones were cracked.
The vibrations under my feet stopped at some point, and the moving trees also stopped.
Chen Ling saw a flash of panic in the senior sister's eyes, and he tightened the curse whip angrily.
The senior student was in so much pain that she couldn't speak. She opened her eyes in agony, her expression suddenly fierce, and her body standing on the ground immediately pounced towards Chen Ling.
Chen Ling was about to dodge when a figure rushed out from behind him and kicked the body away.
Jiang Yu's face was grim and his eyes were cold. Without waiting for Chen Ling to react, he reached out and touched his face. His thumb wiped across his cheek, and a layer of moisture immediately appeared on his fingertips.
With a little identification, you can tell who this thing comes from.
Jiang Yu's breathing became heavy for a moment, and he grabbed the senior sister's head with his five fingers and pulled her in front of him.
Chen Ling was afraid that he would get angry and kill the senior on the spot, so he hurriedly shouted: "Don't! I haven't asked you a question yet!"
Jiang Yu had no intention of killing the female ghost right now. He suppressed his violent emotions and softened his tone, but he still said only one word in a hard voice: "Ask."
Chen Ling hadn't felt afraid of his ancestors for a long time, but now, that feeling came back again.
The forced coldness in Jiang Yu's tone gave him the illusion that a storm was about to come.
After quietly glancing at the man next to him, Chen Ling repeated his previous question: "Who brought you here? Is he a Taoist priest?"
The senior schoolmate was a principled woman and she refused to say anything.
Jiang Yu chuckled, clenched his five fingers suddenly, and tore off half of his scalp in one go!
Chen Ling's heart was pounding as he looked at the bloody scene.
The female ghost's eyes were bleeding from the pain. She was about to scream when she suddenly felt the hand that was restraining her loosen. She was about to run away when she felt a sharp pain on her head. Several thin and long objects pierced her skull directly!
"No... let me go... please let me go!" In addition to the pain in her head, it seemed as if something was burning. Although she was obviously dead, she felt that every nerve in her brain was beating, struggling, and screaming in pain.
This terrible man deliberately showed mercy, leaving her in a dilemma.
"It's a Taoist priest with a goatee! His name is Qing Tanzi!"
"What are the physical characteristics?" Chen Ling asked.
"He's probably in his forties, about 1.80 meters tall. Oh, and he has a burn scar on his right cheek!"
Chen Ling: "Anything else?"
“No more…” The senior student frowned in pain, her dark blue lips trembling all the time.
Chen Ling continued to interrogate: "Then let me ask you, when did you come from City X, and why did Qing Tanzi ask you to deal with me."
"I just came to North City yesterday. As for why, I don't know. I only know that he asked me to kill you. If I kill you, he will help me to be reborn."
"You can't be reincarnated." Jiang Yu said coldly with disgust, "You have too much blood evil in your body."
This means that someone has killed someone, and more than one person.
"I didn't. If you let me go, I promise I won't do evil again..."
Jiang Yu seemed not to hear her begging for mercy. He closed his eyes and a cluster of hellfire appeared in his palm, instantly burning the head to ashes. Soon after, the corpse that was kicked aside also started to burn.
The black ashes were wet by the rain and all seeped into the soil. Chen Ling discovered that the black fog in the mountains behind was a little lighter than before, and he could at least see things within a radius of five meters.
The rain stopped and Li Hongyu appeared in the woods on the right.
He seemed to have just seen Chen Ling and Jiang Yu, and ran over with the copper coin sword in his hand: "Are you okay?"
"It's okay." Chen Ling thought about what had just happened and asked, "Brother Jiang, did we just enter a maze?"
"Yeah." Jiang Yu didn't expect that someone could be lost right under his nose. His expression was gloomy, and his fists hanging at both sides creaked. "There is only this way up the mountain. It should be that the magic circle was triggered when we passed by somewhere."
"So you were the one who caused the vibration in the mountain?" The maze is based on the Five Elements and the Eight Trigrams. Once you enter it, it is difficult to tell the directions. If you are not well versed in the formation, you will have to rely on no external force to get out of it.
Judging from the movement just now, Jiang Yu used a more violent method, directly changing the arrangement of trees in the mountains and forests, and forcibly destroying the layout of the maze. Only in this way can he find it as quickly as possible.
Although this ability cannot reach the level of moving mountains and filling the sea, it is similar in nature. To achieve this level, it must have consumed a lot of effort and energy.
Chen Ling felt a little distressed: "Are you tired? If you really can't do it, why don't you take a rest."
"I have no problem." Jiang Yu glanced at him coldly, "Let's go."
Chen Ling: “…”
Li Hongyu coughed lightly and said, "I'll go ahead."
Chen Ling reached out and tugged at Jiang Yu's clothes, "Are you angry?"
Jiang Yu said stiffly, "No."
"Oh." Chen Ling nodded and suddenly hugged the man's arm from behind. "You arrived just in time, and without you, the female ghost would definitely not confess so quickly."
Jiang Yu suddenly stopped, pinched the young man's chin and bit it, his tongue going straight in, deliberately scratching the young man's sharp little fangs inside.
Chen Ling was dumbfounded, no matter how he looked at the old ancestor, he didn't look like the kind of person who would get horny everywhere. Was he so angry that he lost his temper
Li Hongyu heard two people behind him talking about a female ghost. He turned around to ask about the details, but was stunned for a moment and quickly turned his head back.
Then Jiang Yu said in a hoarse voice: "Bite me."
Li Hongyu: “…”
Then Chen Ling's voice came again: "Where to bite?"
Jiang Yu: “Tip of the tongue.”
Their lips pressed together, their tongues intertwined, and Chen Ling obediently bit it hard, and the taste of blood immediately filled his mouth.
Jiang Yu pinched his chin, and finally kissed his lips again as if coaxing him, "Swallow it."
The blood on the tip of the tongue, for a living person, is the blood with the heaviest yang energy, the essence blood. Although the ancestor is not a living person in the broad sense, the blood on the tip of the tongue should also contain his own essence.
Chen Ling licked his lips and swallowed the blood remaining on his lips together with the blood in his mouth.
Seeing the red tip of the tongue playfully moving in and out of the gap between the lips, Jiang Yu's emotions changed a little, and his voice was calm and restrained: "It can deepen the induction between you and me, but the effect will not last long."
Chen Ling heard a hint of regret in his words, "Then how can we achieve complete telepathy?"
Jiang Yu looked at him deeply and said something else: "The person behind Huang Fugui is not an ordinary person. He has profound attainments in Taoism. You will gain a lot from fighting him."
Li Hongyu, who was in the front, had been listening to the noise from behind. Seeing that they were finally getting to the point, he quickly joined in: "What's the name of that evil sect? Did you just ask that female ghost?"
"I found out his name is Qing Tanzi." Chen Ling couldn't figure out when he had ever made an enemy with this man.
"Qingtanzi?" Li Hongyu murmured to himself, and said in a low voice, "I seem to have heard it somewhere."
Chen Ling thought that the Special Investigation Department was involved in a related case, and hurriedly said, "Don't worry, think about it slowly."
Li Hongyu searched his memory and finally got a clue. "Remember the Taoist priest who killed Paper Rose after she was hit by a car? After the Wang couple was brought to justice, I personally interrogated them. Although the evil Taoist priest did not formally join the sect, he was said to have a very powerful senior brother. They originally wanted to ask Qing Tanzi for help, but because he was traveling, they had to settle for his junior brother."
Chen Ling was silent for a moment, "So he deliberately targeted me to avenge his fellow apprentice?"
"I'm afraid it's not that simple." Jiang Yu said, "There is someone else behind Qing Tanzi."
Chen Ling immediately thought of the key. The village had started worshipping Huang Fu's ghost a long time ago and offering living people as sacrifices, and this practice has continued to this day.
The initial events happened so long ago that it is difficult to trace back, but at least in the last few decades after the fire, the manipulators behind the scenes have been intentionally creating corpse-raising grounds.
Qing Tanzi is now in his forties, it is impossible for him to have learned magic while still in his mother's womb.
Before him, the corpse-raising ground must have been controlled by another person.
After reaching an agreement with Qing Tanzi, or recruiting him for his own use, this person gave him the task of raising corpses.
Chen Ling was suspicious: "Did he happen to find out that I was the enemy who killed his fellow apprentice?"
Li Hongyu: “It’s possible.”
Chen Ling felt very wronged: "But that evildoer clearly caused the car accident because of his evil magic and the backlash of his sins."
"Not everyone can distinguish right from wrong, black from white." Jiang Yu's hand fell to the back of the young man's neck, caressing it gently, "But I assure you, those who commit many evil deeds and help the tyrants to do evil will not be tolerated by the laws of the world, and the law of the underworld will not tolerate him either."
Chen Ling looked at him in a daze, this seemed like he wanted to kill him completely.
Jiang Yu pinched the skin on the back of the young man's neck lovingly, and pushed him forward. Soon they saw the pavilion.
There was no sign of Huang's father's ghost in the pavilion, but the air was filled with a strong smell of blood and a gloomy ghostly aura.
"He's hiding nearby." Jiang Yu's brows were stern, and an invisible pressure emanated from his body.
Chen Ling clearly felt that there was something depressing in the air.
He heard the chirping of birds in his ears and turned his head. The birds hiding deep in the woods were trembling with fear because of the strange scene in the mountain. They flew in all directions chirping as if they were frightened by something huge.
On the ground, reptiles and snakes hiding in the holes in the soil also emerged one after another and ran down the mountain in a hurry.
Chen Ling realized that the ancestor not only wanted to kill Qing Tanzi, but also wanted to force out Huang Fu's ghost.
He was afraid that the man would be punished for meddling in the affairs of the living world, so he said hurriedly, "It's inconvenient for you to meddle in the affairs of the living world. I'll do it myself."
The frozen expression on Jiang Yu's face melted instantly. He pinched the young man's cheek and said softly, "I'll catch it and let you hang it and beat it, okay?"
If you think about it carefully, our ancestors didn't interfere at all. They just lent a hand and did some favors.
Chen Ling did not hesitate. This kind of good thing must be done!