That sneer made my whole body freeze, not because of fear, but because I seemed to smell a secret that had been buried for many years, and I had entered a vortex, and the vortex was full of some kind of terrifying unknown.
The magic of asking was completed at this moment, and the communicated will of the ghost soldiers began to spread out, and began to act on my request, temporarily calming these ordinary people.
Immediately, the world seemed to quiet down. The originally chaotic scene, with people dancing like demons, suddenly stopped all their movements. Some people's cloaks had been lifted while they were twisting the old man away, and their eyes remained in horror. moment.
I breathed a sigh of relief, and a trace of guilt flashed through my heart. Since I had invited ghost soldiers, this kind of 'hypnotic suppression' similar to confusion must be full of some kind of fear, and it might leave a mark on people here in the future. It's a psychological shadow, but at this moment, I can't care so much, and God will forgive me for wanting to save those children.
Thinking like this, I lifted the hat of the black cloak that had been covering my head. On the late autumn night, the inexplicable cold wind blew, and I walked step by step towards the high platform.
The man in black who just made a strange corpse-like roar just kept looking at me, watching me walking towards the high platform step by step, without any words or any movements, like a wooden man, but several other black people The people in clothes gathered around him nervously.
He seemed to be very calm, and he didn't make the slightest move about me suppressing everyone in an instant. From his cold breath, I couldn't feel that he cared about this matter at all... but it seemed like It feels like you are quietly waiting for me to arrive at your door.
My mood was a little confused. Looking at the "terrible" sacrifices on the high platform and the dancing fire in the brazier, I felt more and more that the high platform was a terrifying place, and I couldn't help but start thinking wildly...
"The Roar of the Corpse is a mystery that Taoists cannot solve even today." In the bamboo forest house in my memory, my master was explaining it to me when I was young, holding a book describing various monsters and monsters.
"Why is it an unsolvable mystery?"
"Because the zombies themselves have incomplete souls, and there are even very few zombies that don't even have souls due to some kind of mutation, so they can just pick up the corpse. But once they pick up the corpse, become active for a certain period of time, and are contaminated with human blood, After becoming truly mature zombies, their roars have a strong suppressive effect on humans. Even if a mature zombie roars in the deep mountains and old forests, if people within a ten-mile radius hear even a little bit of the sound, they will be hooked. It arouses the deepest fear in the heart. Do you know? Fear is a great harm to the soul. Just like when a person is suddenly frightened, the consequences will vary depending on the degree of fear, and may even threaten life. The soul is afraid of fear . But only the soul can have an effect on the soul. How can a zombie make such a zombie roar? It’s hard to understand.”
"Ah, Master, the zombie roar is so powerful? Then if I encounter a zombie and the zombie roars in the future, won't I be roared to death?"
"If you are in awe, you will naturally have no fear in your heart. Even if you are not a Taoist and do not have the method of soul defense, ordinary people will not be affected if they can do this."
"What do you mean? Master?"
"A person who is always in awe, his words and deeds are magnanimous to heaven and earth, and he lives up to all things. He who is blessed by God, why should he be afraid? Brat, go take a bath... It seems that you only know how to copy the Tao Te Ching. , I didn’t understand the meaning at all, and after I finished taking a bath, I copied it a hundred times.”
"Smelly old man, I will never do it..."
The memories stopped abruptly before reaching the high platform in the cold wind of late autumn... and the warmth of the memories suddenly eliminated my fear, causing a smile to appear at the corner of my mouth unconsciously. I didn't even notice that at this moment, there was a person. An old and feeble hand held me.
"Don't go up." I turned around and saw, wasn't it the frail old man? The success of the magic technique just now allowed a dozen of them to finally get rid of the ordinary people. I didn't expect that he would stop me at this time, and... I seemed to hear someone calling him Mr. Liu.
"Why? Aren't you going to save the child?" My eyes were full of surprise. Wasn't he coming to stop these people from doing anything to the child
We didn't notice that our conversation was a bit strange. I didn't ask him who he was, and he didn't ask me who I was. We just talked in such a familiar way, all because we had the same goal at the moment.
"Liu Jiwang, I advise you not to interfere. He is my sacrifice. This sacrifice is very interesting. Ten years ago, such a sacrifice appeared once. It was very satisfying. Do you want to destroy it? Do you think All your blessings can allow you to be so reckless as to destroy such a sacrifice?" I didn't expect that my brief conversation with the old man would actually touch this middle-aged man who had always been silent. He actually took a few steps forward and reached the high platform. On the edge of the window, looking down at me and this frail old man... Unlike others, this man in black not only wore a cloak, but also wore a mask on his face, but what he said was full of all kinds of information. Already lost in thought, he didn't pay much attention to the mask on his face.
Sacrifice, satisfaction, ten years ago... I thought again of the old man who rented a house to us, and some of the words he said... It's not like no one has been here before!
"Wei Donglai, I have to stop you today even if I pay all the costs. What do you want?" As I was thinking, this weak old man suddenly burst out with a strong momentum. Although his body was still so weak, his eyes were full of A certain kind of determination, as strong as an immovable rock.
But I was stunned. Two questions exploded in my heart. The first one was shocking... Wei Donglai? Wei Dong is coming! ! If I remember correctly, in the story Mr. Ge told us, he was a dead man! ! He obviously died at the door of the broken house that night. He... The second thing is, why did this stranger Liu, Mr. Liu, want to protect me so strongly? Don't you want me to be a sacrifice
What is this town... My throat is dry, I thought I was close to the truth... But in fact, I found that I knew nothing.
"Humph... Of course I can't do anything, but wait a moment, the ship from the Holy Village will arrive, and I will naturally tell everything truthfully... Let's talk about it then. Haha..." At the end of the sentence, Wei Donglai was happy He laughed a few times. Why was he, who was originally cold and emotionless, so happy? Could it be because he finally suppressed Mr. Liu
After Wei Donglai said these words, Mr. Liu's face became extremely ugly. He glanced at the four crying children on the high platform with some guilt, gritted his teeth and said, "Let's go." After that, he pulled me along. Gotta go!
"But the child..." I don't know what grudges are happening in the town, but I don't want to be affected by these grudges. I am here to save the children, so naturally I want to take them away.
The reason why I wasn't tough was that I couldn't bear to push away this frail old man who was pulling me, but how could he pull me away? I told myself, I must save the child!
"I saved you, but I can't save them. Even if I pay all the price... let's go..." Mr. Liu's tone was full of sadness and helplessness, but I couldn't understand it at all.
"You are still wise. You have destroyed a total of 7 sacrifices in the past few decades, which is enough. But this time, do you think you can avoid the punishment of taking away the sacrifices after paying all the price? You are so self-righteous... . Even if your bastard father..."
"Wei Donglai!" Mr. Liu became angry all of a sudden. He stomped his crutch on the ground again. At the same time, his hand stretched out tremblingly, and the fist he had been holding suddenly loosened. In that fist, it was astonishingly... A small finger bone, black, exudes an evil yet alluring light.
What it is? I looked at all this with more and more confusion, and the arrogant Wei Donglai on the high platform suddenly lowered his head in fear, and then knelt on the high platform.
His movements were full of awe, but he said bitterly: "Liu Jiwang, you can only rely on this to protect you, you can only rely on this... After today, you will inevitably Go to death, you will die, you will die!"
It is simply an extremely vicious curse, but Mr. Liu is not afraid of it: "People will always die, birth, old age, illness and death. It is human nature. If you have seen through it, what is there to be afraid of? You are wrong to threaten me with this." "What's the use! Let's go..."
While we were talking, Mr. Liu came to pull me up again and wanted to say something to me... But at this moment, from the rolling Yellow River next to him, a burst of drumming sounds suddenly came from the rolling Yellow River... .
"Hurry up, or it will be too late!" Mr. Liu suddenly became very anxious!