Perhaps because of Li Hu's suggestion, Zhou Hui had a lot of dreams that night.
When a person has lived to his level, he knows it when he dreams, and he also wonders how he can remember such a long and secret past, and these things, after thousands of years of vicissitudes, are still as clear as yesterday.
That was when Phoenix gave birth to the eldest son. The celestial phenomena were strange, the universe was unstable, and the elixir of the mother's body was rapidly absorbed by the embryo. Many people said that Phoenix could not last this time.
The phoenix does not die by Nirvana, but it does not mean that it will live forever. Once the soul returns to the endless ruins beyond the thirty-three days, it is said to be eternal, but in fact it is no different from death.
Zhou Hui knelt in front of the golden Buddha of the Heavenly Dao Baizhang for seven days and seven nights, holding a string of blue-colored beads in his hand, which he turned thousands of times.
"Are you taking refuge?" the Buddha asked for the first time.
Zhou Hui was silent for a long time and said, "No."
Thunder and lightning flashed outside the Buddhist hall, and it poured rain. Countless lightning bolts fell from the sky like winding dragons, whipping the earth into scorched earth for thousands of miles.
Hu Qing held an oil-paper umbrella, walked down the winding bluestone path at the foot of the mountain, and stood at the entrance of the Buddhist hall. He was like a lonely ghost in a rainy night, his wet face was very pale, and he said faintly, "I can't hold it anymore."
"… "
"Phoenix said that if it comes to the end, the inner alchemy can be sacrificed to protect the embryo."
"… "
The lights in the Buddhist hall were like beans, and half of Zhou Hui's profile was hidden in the darkness, appearing obscure.
The Buddha asked again, "Are you taking refuge?"
It took a long time this time, until Hu Qing thought he had fallen asleep in this position, or simply turned into a stone and took root in the ground, only to hear him suddenly open his mouth and say in a hoarse voice: "No. "
On the tenth day, the sky and the earth fell, the black wind was blowing, and the rainstorm was endless, like the legendary ice hell. Demons and ghosts danced wildly in the vast world, glaciers collapsed, sea water poured back, and the earth trembled and cracked under the scorching of blood and fire.
Zhou Hui's whole body trembled, his fingernails squeezed into the Buddha beads with force, pinching a few pieces of blue colored glass so that they were covered with cracks.
The Buddha asked for the third time, "Are you taking refuge?"
The sharp shards sank deep into his palm, and the blood threads entered the heart of the bead along the fine cracks, reflecting a blurred and eerie shimmer under the candlelight.
"I… "
He wanted to say that I was willing to take refuge, but the weight of the words was like a crack in the sky, crushing his back and breaking almost every inch of his bones.
"I… "
He closed his eyes tightly and opened his mouth tremblingly, when he suddenly heard a voice from the front of the Buddhist hall: "It's born! The phoenix chick is born!"
"The peacock comes into the world, with bright wisdom, perfect merit, and enlightenment of the Dharma!"
"Mahamayu Li Raja, born to the ground, like the golden sun of the snow-capped mountains, seals the king of Peacock Ming!"
…
Zhou Hui's whole body suddenly loosened, as if he had suddenly unloaded a heavy burden, and let out a long, thorough sigh of relief.
However, this breath, I couldn't take it back again—
"Nie Barrier! It's too late!" The sound of the Buddha sounded like thunder in the distant thirty-third heaven.
"If you are obsessed, you can't teach, you've lost your last chance!"
"You add a knife and axe to your body and fall into hell, and you will suffer from irreversible redemption for eternity!"
Zhou Hui looked up and saw King Kong's angry eyes. The Buddha's image was solemn, as if he was going to collapse anytime, anywhere and choose someone to devour. He suddenly took a few steps back and gasped, only to feel his whole body soaked in cold sweat as if soaked in ice water.
At this moment, Hu Qing rushed from outside the Buddhist hall, her voice was so sharp that it almost changed its tone: "Zhou, Zhou Hui! Come and have a look, the eyes of a newborn—"
Zhou Hui turned around abruptly, only to see the face of the nine-tailed fox blue and gray, his expression full of indescribable fear and horror, he couldn't help asking: "What's wrong?"
"The newborn opened his eyes," Hu Qing said tremblingly, "in the pupils... the death of the phoenix is reflected."
The Buddha beads fell to the ground with a clatter, the silk thread was broken, and the blue glazed beads scattered to the ground.
·
Zhou Hui suddenly opened his eyes.
I don't know when it rained heavily outside the window, crackling on the glass window of the hotel, and there was an imperceptible damp and salty smell floating in the air.
Chu He was crossing him, reaching for the phone on his bedside table, and turning back without saying a word.
Zhou Hui laughed, rolled over and pressed heavily on him, and groped down with one hand: "I don't believe you haven't been taught to behave well... Hmm? How many times do you lose to learn to be smart?"
The erotic smell that had just subsided in the dark and warm room began to evaporate again, and in the hazy rainy night, it was especially drowsy. Chu He let out a vague moan, his hands subconsciously grabbed the sheets, Zhou Hui grabbed his fingers in the throbbing gap, and clasped them in his palm.
"I just wanted to... make a phone call..."
"There's no signal," Zhou Hui breathed heavily while kissing him hard, "You and I are the same in the barrier, or do you think you can get out?... It's not that simple, I tell you..."
The naked body rubbed and transpired to create a hot temperature, which made people particularly greedy and addicted. For a moment, Chu He felt that the night was like bottomless water, enough to drown people in it; he tried his best to raise his head and take a deep breath, but he felt the hand stuck on his throat getting tighter and tighter.
In the end, when he was about to suffocate, a hazy light suddenly flashed in his mind, like colorful blocks of color blasting open, the whole person trembled like an electric shock, his hands and feet were weak, and even his internal organs were convulsing.
He let out a pained and bloody gasp that he didn't even hear.
Zhou Hui also took a deep breath, and it took a long while to gradually calm down. He lowered his head and the two kissed briefly.
Chu He was so exhausted that he lay down and didn't want to move. Zhou Hui was lying on his side beside him. In the dark, sweat was glistening on his sturdy and naked upper body. His voice was hoarse and lazily after satisfaction: "Who do you want to call?"
"Zhang Shun."
"Is your brother a young child, and my brother is so anxious to die after a night out?"
Chu He lay quietly and didn't move. After a while, he suddenly asked, "Did you have a dream just now?"
"No." Zhou Hui denied it immediately, then paused and said: "Hu Qing has already told your brother that you will go back tomorrow. Why, you can't wait for this night? Your brotherhood is really touching. tsk."
"..." Chu He was speechless for a moment, then said, "I'm just curious, if there is no special reason, why did you put me in this enchantment to stay for one night? Interesting?"
"Can't I do things for no reason?"
"You're not that kind of person. You don't say 100%, at least 99% of what you do is for a reason."
Zhou Hui changed to a more comfortable position to lie beside him, and said nonchalantly, "It looks like you really don't understand me."
"..." Chu He frowned, and then rubbed his middle knuckles between his brows, looking a little confused.
His appearance reminded Zhou Hui of some old, small and warm scenes from a long, long time ago, and he couldn't help but smile a little. It came suddenly again, like a malicious demon, hiding behind the beauty of the beautiful, full moon, and suddenly showing a hideous smile to him.
Zhou Hui was suddenly silent.
"You know there's a reason for me to trap you all night, but I can't think of what this reason is for. No matter what, we have different ways of thinking." After a while, he suddenly laughed again, and put his hand on Chu He's chin dishonestly. ticked. This action is actually very frivolous or even frivolous, but with his handsome and invincible face, there is a kind of masculine charm that makes people feel heartbroken.
"—Don't worry dear, just for one night. Your husband's fun is always on point, don't you know?"
Chu He looked at him expressionlessly. Zhou Hui blinked, revealing a sly smile.
·
At the same time, suburban development zones, construction sites.
Zhang Shun parked the Ferrari on the side of the road and got out of the car with an umbrella. I saw that the wilderness was washed away by the heavy rain, and the plains in the distance were rolling and rolling, and there was no light at all, as if some kind of monster was showing huge, dark fangs on the horizon.
The cordon at the scene where the body was found was still wrapped around the barbed wire, but it had been swept away by the torrential rain.
Zhang Shun took a deep breath, silently encouraged himself, raised the cordon and burrowed in.
I didn't feel scary when I came during the day. Standing in front of the construction building at night, looking at the big pit where six coffins were dug just a few hours ago, all the creepy fears came back. For a moment, Zhang Shun almost wanted to turn around and leave, but thinking about Zhou Hui's seemingly careless but ruthless style, and Li Hu's specious reminders and hints, Zhang Ershao stopped again.
"How is this used?" he muttered in a low voice, looking down at the golden Buddha seal in his palm. It seems that the woman surnamed Li presses down on the ground during the day and recites two spells. The reflections on the ground are like watching an IMAX 3D blockbuster. After all, what are those two spells
"Even if you can't get in, you should be able to say a few words to hand over some water or something, but if you can't, call the police..." Zhang Shun muttered to himself, just as he was about to press his palm into the damp soil in the pit, Suddenly, there was a flash of light on the road in the distance, followed by bright lights from far to near.
someone is coming? Zhang Shun was startled, and immediately looked around, hesitated for half a second, ran into the construction building, and quickly hid in a pile of scaffolding.
However, he guessed wrong. It was not a police car, but a Grand Cherokee. When approaching the construction site, the cart turned off its headlights and parked in front of the construction building. Then the door opened, and several people walked down one after another, talking in a low voice: "￥％#&％￥… "
“#￥W%(*&… ”
Zhang Shun's heart skipped half a beat - he was Japanese!
It was the Japanese investor who said that Mayor Huang had bought this construction site!
What are they doing here so late? Does the murder really have anything to do with them? Zhang Shun's heart was beating like a drum, and he couldn't help but secretly glanced at it - I saw several Japanese people working together to remove a long cloth bag from the car, throw it on the ground, and then take out a huge long wooden box.
Zhang Shun recognized what that thing was, and his legs went soft.
- That's a coffin.
Another young man in a white robe got out of the car. His steps and expressions were stiff. He got off the car step by step and stood in front of the cloth bag and the coffin. When Zhang Shun saw it clearly, he almost didn't freak out. He saw that a gun was held on the back of the boy's head. The gun was a middle-aged man in a gray suit. Everyone else stood in a circle and watched.
Is this the murder scene? Did I fucking crash into the murder scene? !
Zhang Shun shuddered like a sifter, and was considering which would be more maneuverable to sneak away without anyone noticing or to plop down and pretend to be stunned. He just heard the gray suit speak, and he said in Chinese: "Do it now, Don't force me to do it!"
The boy trembled and said hoarsely after a long time: "But I don't want to kill anymore, you kill me."
After saying the last word, he suddenly became calm and stood there and closed his eyes.
·
The gray suit probably didn't expect the young man to say such a thing. After being stunned for a while, he became furious. The butt of his gun smashed him under the ground, and then he kicked him a few times.
The young man curled up all over his body in pain, but he couldn't let go of the bite, and he let out a short cry of pain when he was in a hurry. The gray suit kicked a few more times, but there was nothing he could do, so he said angrily: "Do you think only you can do it, Yan Lanyu? You guys! Untie this bag!"
The two men next to him immediately untied the cloth bag and took it off. Only then did Zhang Shun see that there was actually a person inside.
The man must have passed out, and he didn't respond to such a big movement. The gray suit snorted and walked up to the man with the gun in hand.
The boy named Yan Lanyu lay on the ground, probably knowing what was going to happen next, shaking his hair and gasping in pain.
Zhang Shun didn't react, or this well-protected rich second generation didn't realize that there was such a cruel side in the world. He opened his eyes subconsciously, only to see the gray suit raise the gun, and the gun with the silencer popped out.
The man in the cloth bag had a bloody arrow above his head, and then his head was tilted.
Kill, kill!
Zhang Shun's whole body trembled as if he was hit by the electric shock. It hit the steel scaffolding with a bang.
At that moment, Zhang Shun felt that his whole body's blood was frozen into ice. Then, a few people not far away turned their heads at the same time and shouted, "Who is there?"
Zhang Shun stiffened for half a second, then turned around and ran!
Facts have proved that even if the dog jumps off the wall, the second generation of rich can't run as fast as a well-trained wolf. He just rushed out a few steps when he was caught in the head, slammed to the ground, and then punched him in the face, so that he could only hug him. The head screamed. Soon the severe pain made him lose the strength to scream, and he could only beg for mercy intermittently when the fist hit his face and body.
For a few seconds, he even thought he would be beaten to death—he never thought that being held down and beaten up would be such a terrifying and desperate thing. From this, he was not even as good as that little boy named Yan Lanyu, at least someone else. I just gritted my teeth and didn't beg for mercy...
"Okay!" someone shouted suddenly.
The fist gradually stopped, Zhang Shun gasped in embarrassment for a while, and then the severe pain penetrated the numbness and slowly returned to the reflex nerve. I saw the gray suit standing in front of him with a gun, his face full of haze, and the young man not far away shouted sharply: "Don't kill him, I will help you make the seventh laughing corpse!"
Zhang Shun stared at the gun, only to feel that his mind went blank. It's really stiff and blank, even thoughts like "My life is over", "I'll be a hero again in 18 years", and "Brother, I'm going to die, will we meet in the underground soon?" Did not think.
"... tie him up," Zhang Shun felt that a whole century had passed, but in fact it only took a few seconds before he heard the voice of the gray suit: "Bring it here, if the corpse is unsuccessful, use him to tie him up. number."
Those men immediately pulled out the rope from the Cherokee and tied Zhang Shun Wu Hua to the gray suit and the boy. The teenager had already climbed up, half-kneeled beside the man's body, stared at Zhang Shun and asked, "Who are you and why are you here?"
Zhang Shun's whole body trembled uncontrollably, he knew it was too embarrassing, but he really couldn't stop it. He desperately thought that he was still too casual, that he was not as mature and calm as his brother at the critical moment, and it was useless at all.
"I... I passed by, I passed by to make soy sauce, you must not kill me... "
Yan Lanyu smiled briefly, her expression very sad: "You'd better close your eyes."
close your eyes? Why? Are you really going to kill me to make up the eighth body? Damn, I'll be lying in a coffin and laughing like that ghostly virtue? ... Zhang Shun's mind instantly flooded with ten thousand thoughts, only to hear the young man say: "The next process will be a little disgusting, I will take out all the internal organs of this person, and then do some measures to make his face... You still close it. Eyes are better."
Zhang Shun stared at him dumbfounded, realizing that the young man was not joking, and immediately closed his eyes tightly and turned around.
There was a rustling sound from behind him, followed by a thick bloody sound. The wet thing fell to the ground and made a crackling sound. After realizing what it was, Zhang Shun immediately got goosebumps all over his body.
He didn't realize it himself, but in fact he was shaking so much that he couldn't even stand, and a few Japanese people let out obvious sneers.
"Okay," Yan Lanyu said hoarsely after some time, "put him in."
Several people came forward, lifted the body, and put it in the coffin.
Zhang Shun used all his courage to open a small slit in his eyes - he thought that if he didn't die tonight, he must remember what this person looked like, and in the future, he could burn some iPhone for this unfortunate man during the festivals. or something. Who knew that he was frightened as soon as he opened his eyes, only to see the corpse stripped bare, the corners of his mouth grinning to his ears, and he was made to sit cross-legged in a weird way, with a knife inserted into his chest in one hand, and the other in his chest. Raise one hand flat, index finger outstretched and pointing straight ahead.
Zhang Shun was so frightened that he saw a few Japanese people who were not taboo, put the corpse in the coffin, closed the coffin lid, and started digging soil in the big pit where six coffins were dug out during the day with that special tool. .
They dug very fast and worked very hard, but fortunately they didn't let Zhang Shun dig along with them - Zhang Ershao thought that they should be bothered by themselves, rather than having learned the provisions of the Geneva Convention on the prohibition of allowing prisoners of war to work as coolies. The soil at the bottom of the pit was loose, and soon they dug a large pit seven feet square, and lifted the coffin and buried it in it.
Yan Lanyu sat on the ground with a sigh and said to Zhang Shun, "You step back."
Zhang Shun hurriedly stepped back and saw that he took out something from his neck, which seemed to be a sharp gray-white pendant. He pierced his middle finger with the pointed end of the pendant, and began to draw talismans on the ground with blood, murmuring something while drawing.
All the Japanese stepped back, but the gray suit stepped forward and put the muzzle on his head.
"Is this necessary, Uncle Xiangtian?" Yan Lanyu asked mockingly without turning her head back.
The gray suit said coldly: "Your cunning personality, who knows if you will make something wrong on purpose, so that all of us will be buried here?"
Yan Lanyu didn't seem to bother to answer at all, but from Zhang Shun's point of view, out of the corner of his eye, he could see that his wrist was extremely imperceptible, erased a rune, and repainted it a few times.
As the runes became more and more dense, the surrounding wilderness gradually became darker and darker. Zhang Shun is particularly sensitive in a tense environment, and soon he found that the rain that had become finer stopped, and then the wind became stronger and stronger, and the layers of dark clouds covered the miserable white hairy moon like a thick swamp. , the whole wilderness became as pure black as ink, and even the light of the flashlight more than ten steps away became blurred.
Yan Lanyu was still painting without looking up. Both his and Aida's faces seemed to glow blue, looking extremely terrifying.
Zhang Shun shuddered, and then he heard long and shrill screams from the depths of the wilderness, from far to near from all directions.
The Japanese also made a slight agitation, looked up and looked around, but couldn't see anything. In the darkness, there seemed to be countless ghosts flying from afar, dragging long cries, floating above their heads, and even wailing miserably sharply beside people's ears.
This eerie and terrifying atmosphere is like a real Hollywood ghost movie. Several Japanese people are holding flashlights that have turned green, their legs are shaking. Only Zhang Shun, who is standing on the side, is afraid to the extreme. Instead, a self-sacrificing calm erupted, thinking what is there to be afraid of ghosts? Grandpa is someone who has seen ghosts at the bedside and has attacked Demon Venerable. You Japanese devils are much scarier than ghosts, aren't you
"How could this be?" Xiangtian ignored the stench of cold wind blowing against his ears while lying on his shoulders, and asked Yan Lanyu loudly, "What did you do?!"
"This is normal," Yan Lanyu said indifferently while painting, "Seven laughing corpses attract countless lonely and wild ghosts from all directions, and too many ghosts will cause the terrestrial fetus to spasm due to the extreme pain, which will collapse the earth's veins... "
Before the words fell, there was a sudden muffled sound, and everyone felt the ground under their feet shake.
"It's the fetus of the earth!" Aida said in surprise, followed by ecstasy: "The fetus of the earth has moved!"
Yan Lanyu didn't care to respond to him, the spell consumed him too much energy, he once again pierced his finger with the strange gray-white pendant, and after drawing the last few strokes with blood, he suddenly got up and stepped back a few steps.
Immediately afterwards, the earth trembled, and there was a roar of cracking!
Everyone fell down in exclamations, Zhang Shun was caught off guard and fell and ate shit, and instantly spit out half a bloody front tooth. Before he got up and scolded his mother, he saw that the big pit under his feet was cracked, and the crack quickly spread to the ground with a terrible creaking sound. Within a few seconds, a bottomless black gap was formed, and at the same time, countless cracks quickly Crawling around in all directions.
A corner of the coffin that had just been buried in the ground was exposed from the gap, and it suddenly shook, followed by a force from the gap in the ground—Zhang Shun subconsciously knew that something was pulling it inside—the coffin was stuck in the soil and shook a few times. , followed by a swoosh, and was pulled in by the thing underground!
Zhang Shun was horrified, took the opportunity to turn around and ran, and then Aida roared: "Catch him and let him go down first!"
A few Japanese flew up and pressed him tightly in an instant. Zhang Shun tried his best to resist and struggle to no avail. He was tied back and dragged to the entrance of the cave. He couldn't help but scream in horror: "Don't go down! There is something down there! The coffin and the coffin have been pulled away!"
Aida showed a mocking smile and ordered his subordinates: "Look how deep it is."
A few Japanese tied the bricks to the rope and threw them into the hole. Because the tremor of the earth had not completely subsided, and the opening of the crack in the ground was very steep, they pulled one by one. After a while, the bricks touched the ground, and they pulled out the rope to measure. It was measured that there were more than 20 meters in it.
Aida pointed to Zhang Shun and said, "You, go down first."
More than twenty meters! If you slide down the rope, you may fall to your death! Not to mention the weird stuff in there! Zhang Shun shook his head desperately and shouted: "Don't! Don't let me go! If I die, my family will never let you go! If you want money, I have it, and you can tell me how much you want!"
"Money," Aida laughed. "For people like us, money is the least valuable thing. Send him off!"
Several of his subordinates immediately pushed Zhang Shun into the crack of the ground, Zhang Ershao struggled and screamed, and was beaten several times on the face and body in the chaos. Although the Japanese are all well-trained security personnel, Zhang Ershao is really desperate at the moment, and he was not pushed down immediately. The gun shouted: "You can't go down, don't force me to throw your body down to explore the way!"
Zhang Shun screamed in fright, his legs and feet were weak, and he almost fell into the crack of the ground by being violently pushed by his subordinates.
"Let go of him." At this moment, Yan Lanyu got up and walked forward, holding down several of Zhang Shun's men, and said in a calm and unquestionable tone, "I'll be the first to go down."
The men hesitated and stopped, and looked at Aida with inquiring eyes. Aida's expression was rather strange, and after looking at Yan Lanyu up and down, he hummed slowly: "You really are still such a woman... Anyway, you have to go down anyway, it doesn't matter if you go down early to explore the road."
Yan Lanyu sneered and didn't answer. He took off his hunting clothes on the outside, and the inside turned out to be a bunt. The young man was thin and strong. After his men tied the climbing rope around his waist, he stepped down the steep dirt slope step by step, looked back at Zhang Shun before the cave and said, "You follow me, don't be afraid."
He looked very young, seventeen or eighteen at the most, maybe fifteen or sixteen. Children of this age are usually still in middle school, and there are already many vicissitudes and winds and frosts in their eyes that adults do not have.
At that moment, an inexplicable feeling hit Zhang Shun's heart. He suddenly thought that it had always been like this. Whenever there was danger, he would always be blocked behind others—Chu He, Zhou Hui, Even the woman named Li Hu, who has now become this teenage child...
He was always the one being protected, and he was always watching others hurt and bleed in front of him.
Zhang Shun opened his mouth, but couldn't make a sound, and nodded heavily after a long while.
Yan Lanyu jumped down without looking back, Zhang Shun was pushed hard by the Japanese, and he staggered into the ground after him. When he went down, he rubbed his forehead hard on the wall of the pit. Before he felt any pain, he suddenly lost weight and fell at least two or three meters vertically.
With a thud, he fell heavily on a raised stone, and he grimaced in pain, only to hear Aida ask from it, "How is it down there?"
Yan Lanyu was in front of him, without turning his head, "Leave the rope a little longer!"
Immediately afterwards, he turned around and made a "shush" gesture, took out a dagger from his waist, and stuffed it into Zhang Shun's arms.
"you… "
Yan Lanyu interrupted Zhang Shun, speaking very fast and softly, her Chinese fluent not like Japanese at all: "Listen, I will lead these people to a dead end later, if you get the chance, run quickly. Bar."
"What about you?"
A very light smile appeared on the boy's face, "I'm going to kill them all."
Zhang Shun didn't know what to say at that moment, but just a few seconds was too heavy for him. After a while, he swallowed and said firmly, "I'll stay and help you!"
Yan Lanyu shook his head with a smile, and pointed to the gray-white flake-shaped pendant on his chest: "If you have the chance, after I die, take this pendant, it will protect you from this cave smoothly. After going out, take this pendant. , please tell the Zhou Hui who was with you in the daytime about my death, and ask him to tell a person named Yu in Guoan, this fragment is what Guoan has been looking for."
It was very dark in the cave, but Zhang Shun felt tears slowly pouring out of the corner of the boy's eyes, even though he couldn't hear any sound.
"I can't run alone," Zhang Shun gasped and vetoed with difficulty: "You're still so young, I can't be like this... Who is that surname Yu? Can he come to rescue you? Either you come with me, we... "
Yan Lanyu said: "He is the person I saved two years ago. I gave up the opportunity to be free to save his life. He promised to come back to save me two years later, but he missed the appointment."
The young man paused sadly and said in a low voice, "Please tell him that Yan Lanyu is dead, this is the last thing I can give him."