I walked up to Jiang Yan and said, "You heard what we said just now, right? If we want to survive, we can only move forward. As long as we move fast enough, there might be a chance of survival."
I knew Jiang Yan was afraid of death, so I deliberately reminded him that he could only survive if he got to the destination as soon as possible. I was using Jiang Yan's prestige among those people to appease these employers who were almost scared to death.
Jiang Yan nodded and said, "Brother Wu, I will listen to whatever you say. Where are we going?"
I asked, "After watching the corpse-driving, where did you go?"
Jiang Yan said: "At that time, we waited all night but didn't see the corpse driver coming. Some people were very angry and demanded compensation from the tour guide. The tour guide was forced by us and agreed to take us to see the Fallen Flower Cave Girl, so we followed him."
Ye Jin was furious: "Are you crazy? Why don't you try lying in the coffin to see if it's comfortable?"
In a sense, the most terrifying of the three evils in western Hunan is not the poison, but the Luohua Cave Girl.
Legend has it that some unmarried women suddenly looked inside a cave, tree hole or ancient well when they passed by one day. After coming back, they stopped eating and drinking, but their complexion became as rosy as peach blossoms, their eyes bright as stars, their voices as pleasant as stringed instruments, and their bodies emitted a sweet fragrance. Every day they wiped the tables and chairs, and swept the hall, making their originally dilapidated homes spotless, and they entered a state of being detached from the world.
According to local sayings, this girl has been chosen by the gods and is waiting for the gods to marry her. At this time, the family will start to prepare dowries for them, and when the gods come to marry them one day, the villagers will send the people into the cave in the form of a wedding. The cave girl will die with a smile within a few days after falling into the cave, but she will always maintain her beautiful face.
Once a girl falls into a cave, even her closest relatives cannot peek at her. How could they go to see her
Ye Jin was so angry that he said, "Come on, tell me, what do you think?"
Jiang Yan whispered, "When we contacted the tour group, there was a project called the Three Evils of Western Hunan. The tour guide also said that there are real and fake ones. If we just want to see the replicas of the Three Evils, we can see them when we get to the scenic spot; if we want to see the original ones..."
Ye Jin shouted before he could finish, "We have to enter the heart of Miao territory, right?"
“Yes…” Jiang Yan answered softly and nodded.
"I think you are crazy!" Ye Jin roared angrily, "There is no way to find excitement like this!"
"Forget it." I raised my hand to stop Ye Jin, "Jiang Yan, do you still remember where you saw the Fallen Flower Cave Girl?"
Jiang Yan's face turned pale and he said, "I, I, I..."
"You don't remember, right?" Ye Jin roared, "What can you remember?"
Unlike Gu poison, Luohua Dongnu only appears in ancient tribes deep in Xiangxi. Outsiders like Jiang Yan could not find such a tribe without a guide.
I said in a deep voice, "What's the approximate location? You should be able to find the approximate location, right?"
At this time, someone whispered: "I took some videos along the way, but I didn't capture them all. Do you think it's okay..."
I grabbed the camera from the man and roughly flipped through it. The man was taking pictures of the scenery along the way intermittently, with the intervals being long and short, but at least there was a mark.
I put away the camera and said, "Let's go back to the forest."
"Go back?" Jiang Yan's face turned grim, "That place just now..."
I said in a deep voice, "You all gathered in that forest at that time. We can only go back and find a way. Hurry up and pack up and go back."
Jiang Yan whispered, "We don't have anything to pack."
I looked around and saw that they didn't bring anything with them except their backpacks. I couldn't help but have a headache again.
It's nonsense to say that Jiang Yan and his friends have never camped outdoors. Just looking at their outdoor gear, you can tell that some of them are outdoor enthusiasts. However, once they lose their outdoor gear, even eating becomes a problem.
Am I going to lead such a group of people deep into Miao territory
However, at this point, we can no longer go back to the city to buy equipment, and can only hope to find some equipment from the battlefield just now. But to my disappointment, after the battle between the corpse chasers and the Xuanjing Division, they not only took away the corpses, but also cleaned up the bloodstains at the scene.
If we had not witnessed with our own eyes a bloody battle here, who would have imagined that there were more than a dozen wronged souls of sorcerers abandoned here.
I squatted down and felt around on the ground for a few times, then dug a few times in the weeds with a knife, and soon pulled out a human hand. Several girls in the team screamed in fear, but I used a knife to cut open the fingers of the corpse, squeezed out a few drops of blood, smeared them on a big coin, and then used a red string to pass through the hole in the coin and lifted the coin into the air.
Not long after, the big coin I was holding in the air floated forward as if pulled by some force.
"Follow me!" I called Ye Jin and the others, and walked in the direction Da Qianer pointed.
Lu Xiaoying, who was following behind me, whispered, "Is it okay for you to do this? Are you sure you are chasing after a corpse chaser?"
There is a consensus in the art of magic that after a person is killed, there will always be some resentment that lingers on the murderer, and even if the murderer is a magician, it is impossible to eliminate the resentment in a short period of time. Moreover, some evil magicians simply don't think about eliminating it.
I use the blood of the dead to paint the big money, actually I am tracking the resentment of the dead, that is, I am tracking the corpse chaser.
I handed the video recorder to Lu Xiaoying and lowered my voice, "Now I can only bet that the corpse chasers are heading to the place where Jiang Yan has been. Look for yourself, after they leave here, they recorded the second time five hours later."
"During that time, they must have been sleeping in the car. Without anyone to lead the way, we are wandering around in the mountains. When can we find their next place of stay?"
Xiao Baitang, who was walking beside me, whispered, "Would it be faster if we hired a guide?"
"It's too late." According to the old man, after the corpse chasers fought with the Xuan Jing Division, they would gather in large numbers at the edge of Miao Territory to prevent the Xuan Jing Division from going deep into Miao Territory. If we go back to find them, it would be like walking into a trap. The people from the three sects will not give us the opportunity to return to Miao Territory. Going the other way is the only chance of survival.
We walked along the mountain road for about an hour, and Jiang Yan and his team were so tired that their faces turned pale. I even heard someone crying in the team. Jiang Yan came to my side and said in embarrassment: "Brother Wu, why don't we take a break!"
I looked behind me, then at the big money in my hand. "Ye Jin, Xiao Baitang, you stay and watch them. Lu Xiaoying and I will go to the front to take a look. When you have rested enough, follow the marks we left behind."
I didn't care whether they agreed or not, and immediately took Lu Xiaoying and ran deep into the forest. Without Jiang Yan and the others dragging us down, Lu Xiaoying and I ran several times faster, and soon we ran five or six miles away, but the big money in my hand lost its direction and spun rapidly in the air.
"Be careful!" I just put my hand on the handle of the knife when I heard a shrill bell ringing from the nearby woods: "Xiangxi corpse driving, strangers make way..."
Just as I was about to turn around, the voice of the corpse driver suddenly floated from my left to the right: "Xiangxi corpse driver, living people make way..."
The voice of the corpse driver was like a ghost, sometimes fast and sometimes slow, drifting around us, neither showing up nor attacking, as if he was deliberately circling around us. I listened carefully to judge the direction of the corpse driver,
Lu Xiaoying suddenly whispered, "Don't move. Just listen to me."
I was just stunned for a moment, and Lu Xiaoying's Longkou sword had suddenly come out of its sheath, and the sword light was like a rainbow, slashing towards my left side. I watched the bright sword light like autumn water slashing towards the bushes in the distance, and Lu Xiaoying's figure also fell into the bushes with the flying leaves, and the grass leaves instantly blocked my sight.
Lu Xiaoying suddenly shouted: "Knife out from the left side at nine o'clock!"
"Misfortune has come!" I suddenly swung my knife to the left side of my body, and the phosphorescent fire on the knife flashed out. As the green fire roared across the sky, a surprised face appeared in the empty space under the reflection of the fire.
Corpse chaser
It turned out that he had been hiding near me all the time. If Lu Xiaoying hadn't pointed me in the direction, allowing me to break his illusion with one sword, he might have suddenly attacked me in a while.
When the fierce phosphorescent light from my long sword reflected in the opponent's eyes, the latter finally reacted and raised the copper bell in his hand to meet the long sword in my hand.
At the moment when the blade and the bell collided in mid-air, a sharp sound suddenly rang out, and my opponent and I were both shocked and retreated backwards. After I retreated three steps in a row, I still felt a buzzing in my ears and a blank in front of my eyes.
Can the copper bell in the corpse driver's hand frighten the soul? Otherwise, I wouldn't be dizzy from the shock...
"Turn around and slash with the blade facing up!" As soon as Lu Xiaoying shouted, I swung the knife behind me without hesitation.
The turning sword is what Guan Yu often calls the backward sword, which is used to chop off a person's head with one blow, so the blade must fall on the opponent's neck, and at the very least it should cut the opponent's throat.
When I first saw the corpse chaser, I clearly felt that he was much shorter than me. Shouldn't I aim the blade downwards to kill him? Lu Xiaoying asked me to aim the blade upwards, so wouldn't that mean I would sweep over the opponent's head
Although this thought flashed through my mind, I chose to trust Lu Xiaoying at the critical moment. I suddenly raised my hands and swept the knife upwards.
Not long after I drew my knife, I felt the tip of the knife scratch something like leather, and it passed in front of me with a "hissing" sound. However, I heard Lu Xiaoying shouting, "Be careful behind you..." (To be continued)