Chapter One Hundred and Twenty-Three: The Death of the Dragon Slayer
"In Xiangxi, corpses are driven away, but strangers avoid them"
night.
Jiuquan Town fell into sleep, and with the sound of a ringing bell, a burly middle-aged Taoist slowly came driving two rows of corpses.
"Stop shouting. Why are you coming here in such a big way? Send someone to inform me. Keep it private."
In the darkness, someone came out muttering.
If there are any town residents here, they will find that the person who greeted Mr. Corpse Expulsion is none other than Mayor Ye of Jiuquan Town.
"Mayor Ye, no matter how much I begged you before, you still refused to let me build the warehouse in Jiuquan Town."
"Why are you so nice this time? You contacted me without telling me, and you still said you want to cooperate with me?"
Mr. Corpse Exorcist looked at Mayor Ye with suspicion.
"Today is different from the past."
Another young man walked out of the darkness: "This is not what my father meant, it was my idea. If he doesn't listen to you, why doesn't he listen to me?"
Mr. Corpse Exorcist frowned slightly: "Are you the son of Mayor Ye?"
After speaking, he added: "Didn't Mayor Ye say that you are doing business in the Magic City?"
"It's not easy to do business outside, and besides, it's not as comfortable as at home."
"What's more, if we don't make opium, others will."
"There are so many people taking opium now, why can't we make money when others are making it?"
Ye Shihao lit a cigarette for himself and said hesitantly: "My dad has been the mayor of Jiuquan Town for ten years, but he didn't know how to adapt, so my family hasn't gotten rich yet. To be honest, I don't want to be as poor as him all my life. "
Mr. Corpse Exorcist was stunned for a moment: "Your family has more than a dozen shops in Jiuquan Town. Isn't that considered rich?"
"What's the use of a dozen shops? I want to buy a Ford car, but he can't even get it out."
"I don't want my son to live in this kind of poverty when I have a son in the future."
Ye Shihao expressed his position: "Let's cooperate. From now on, you can set up the warehouse in Jiuquan Town. Jiuquan Town will go out with thousands of jars of wine every day. If you mix it up casually, your goods can be mixed in the jars and sent out without having to worry about it." It’s been such a hard day.”
"Well, I think so too."
"My goods come from Yunnan and are delivered to you by carcasses. There is no customs duty on this journey."
"You, take advantage of the mayor's power, mix the goods into the wine jar, and distribute them to wherever you want them. You only pay a few taxes on the wine, but there is a lot of opium. Just the difference in tax can make you Make a fortune."
Mr. Corpse Exorcist greeted him a few words, and then said: "By the way, where do you plan to locate the warehouse?"
Ye Shihao smiled and said, "Do you know about the newly opened church in Jiuquan Town?"
Mr. Corpse Chaser shook his head.
Ye Shihao didn't care: "It doesn't matter if you don't know. There is a basement under the church and there is a lot of space inside."
"In the past, the priest sealed up the evil things. However, I bought the yards on the east and west sides of the church and dug downwards. I dug two passages from the two yards to the church basement."
"From now on, our warehouse will be located in the basement under the church."
"The yard to the west of the church will be given to you, and then we will declare to the outside world that you will use this place as a charity village."
"We will build a warehouse in the yard east of the church."
"In this way, you can use the method of driving corpses to send the zombies carrying opium to the west courtyard, and then enter the church basement through the passage in the west courtyard and put the goods there."
"When we need to deliver goods, we don't have to go to the west courtyard. There is also a passage to the basement in the east courtyard."
"We pick up the goods in the east courtyard and then deliver them from the warehouse. On the surface, our two families have no relationship."
"Plus, with my father covering up, no one of them could have imagined that we were in the opium business."
Listen to each sentence.
Mr. Corpse Exorcist said nonchalantly: "I'm definitely not as familiar with Jiuquan Town as you are. If you think you can do it, then you can definitely do it."
"If I really can't do it, I won't lose anything. At most, I'll work harder in the future and continue to deliver goods by driving away corpses."
Ye Shihao nodded: "Then it's settled. By the way, how much goods did you bring this time?"
Mr. Corpse Chaser glanced behind him: "Eight walking corpses, each carrying ten kilograms of goods, a total of eighty kilograms."
"Really a corpse?"
Ye Shihao was a little skeptical.
"Nonsense, I still have to pay wages, is it really necessary?"
Mr. Corpse Exorcist took off the bamboo hat from the head of a walking corpse.
When you first see it, you see a corpse with half of its face missing, and a yellow talisman on its forehead.
"Don't you think about it, how much does it cost to hire eight people to travel from Yunnan to here?"
The zombie driver smiled and patted the walking zombies on the shoulder: "These walking zombies are different. They are not afraid of hardship or tiredness, and they won't ask me for wages. If you encounter a timid person who has to check the level, I will take them." Once my hood was taken off, no one dared to tell me about the examination."
Ye Shihao was half excited, half nervous: "Come on, I will take you to identify the door. I will give you the key later. You deliver the goods and I will deliver the money. If there is nothing else, we will not meet."
Mr. Corpse Chaser warned: "We will both benefit from our cooperation. Don't try to play tricks on me, otherwise I will not be easy to mess with."
"Don't worry, Tu Long. We have known each other for thirty years. I was not the mayor back then, and you were not the exorcist. Your master has the final say in everything."
"Now I am the mayor, and your master is dead."
"Just because of our friendship, I won't cheat you, right?"
Mayor Ye pulled Jia Chang, and then asked questions at the end: "Tu Long, how did your master die? I remember that if he were alive, he would be in his early sixties this year, right?"
Tu Long sighed: "He was bitten to death by a zombie. Someone asked him to transport a transformed zombie to Qiantang. He was kind-hearted, so he agreed. Unexpectedly, he still couldn't escape the disaster."
"To be honest, I wanted to go with you that time, but my master refused to agree. Maybe he had expected it at that time?"
Mayor Ye nodded and said: "Your master is a nice person. I remember that when he went out to eat, he would always squat in the corner outside the door to eat. When I asked him why, he said that he was a corpse collector and had bad luck, and he didn't want to pass on the bad luck to others. other people."
Tu Long nodded: "Good people don't live long, so I have seen through it all. As long as you can make money, you can do whatever you want. I didn't know how to do it before. I only knew how to help people drive away corpses. But how can you make more money by driving corpses than transporting opium?"
After saying that, Tulong stopped talking and said bluntly: "Let's not talk about this anymore. Let's lead the way. After these walking corpses are settled, I have to go to the Exorcist Taoist Priest. He is a local resident, and I am He is also a fellow Taoist, so I have to say hello to him, otherwise it will be against the rules."
While leading the way, Ye Shihao asked, "Taoist Priest, do you still have such rules?"
"The Qiankun Hall where I was born was branched off from Gezao Mountain."
"As the saying goes, the Three Mountain Talismans belong to the same family. Basically, we are members of the same sect, so we have to call him senior brother."
When Tu Long said this, his tone paused slightly: "Of course, this is an internal matter within our Taoist sect, and it has nothing to do with you. You won't understand if I talk too much."
Ye Shihao thought to himself: "Oh, why are you pretending to be a big-tailed wolf? When I said cooperation, you didn't rush over eagerly."
After half a ring.
When they arrived at the courtyard to the west of the church, Mayor Ye and his son left.
Slaying the Dragon drove the zombies down the tunnel. As soon as he entered the basement under the church, he shuddered: "What a heavy Yin energy!"
Hold the oil lamp and look left and right.
The area inside is very large. First there is an underground hall that can accommodate dozens of people to hold mass, and then there are two built secret rooms. I don't know if they are storage rooms or something else.
Tulong pushed open the door of a secret room and looked inside.
At first glance, this is a utility room, exuding the smell of decay.
Tu Long walked towards the second secret room.
After walking a few steps, thinking of visiting the exorcist Taoist Priest, Tu Long stopped again and muttered: "What's there to see in the utility room? I'm full, haven't I?"
After thinking about it, he picked up the oil lamp and left the basement.
Little did he know that there was a sarcophagus in the second secret room.
On the coffin, a Bible and a cross were originally placed.
Unfortunately, with the construction of the passage, the cross was shaken and fell to the ground. Now only a Bible is still pressed on the sarcophagus.
At this moment, the Bible was emitting black smoke, as if it was about to burn at any time.
Jiuquan Town.
Gym.
"Slaying the Dragon, why are you here in the middle of the night?"
It's around ten o'clock in the evening.
Hearing a knock on the door, the exorcist priest went out to take a look, and frowned slightly when he saw the person coming.
"Why, you don't welcome me?"
Tulong held a snack in his hand: "What do you mean, we have known each other for many years, and we are driving corpses through Jiuquan Town, so why can't we stop by to see you?"
"Can you be so kind?"
The exorcist Taoist Priest didn't believe it, but he still let Tu Long come in: "Sit down wherever you want. There are some snacks and dried meat on the table. I'll make tea for you."
"You can mix well!"
Tu Long glanced at the table: "You can chew the dried meat for fun. Have you become rich recently?"
"I can't talk about getting rich, but I have a good nephew who cares about me."
"You brought me hundreds of kilograms of dried meat in one go. What should I do? Eat it. Don't let it go bad."
The exorcist priest came over with a teapot: "Drink tea."
Tu Long did not refuse, took the tea cup and took a sip.
After finishing the drink, he looked into the back room and asked, "Where are your disciples and the others?"
"I went out to watch a show. I won't be back until early in the morning."
The exorcist Taoist priest explained, and then asked: "Tell me, what do you want me to do? I believe you must go to the Three Treasures Hall for nothing."
Tu Long was unambiguous and said bluntly: "I bought a house in Jiuquan Town, and I plan to make this my home in the future. You live on the land, so I'm here to tell you."
The exorcist Taoist priest frowned: "My Taoist temple is in Jiuquan Town. According to the rules of the Taoist sect, this area is considered my jurisdiction. Others need to stay out of the way. You are not a low-level charlatan, so you don't know the rules, right?"
Tu Long nodded: "I understand the rules. I will stay here. I won't open or do business, and I won't do anything. You don't have to worry that I will steal business from you."
The exorcist Taoist priest narrowed his eyes slightly: "It doesn't matter if you steal business, I'm afraid you'll get some otherworldly things."
"Don't worry, I know what I'm doing."
Tu Long drank the tea in one gulp: "Okay, I'll leave now. I'll come see you for tea when I have time."
After that, he left without looking back.
After a while.
Zhang Heng and the others came back from watching a show.
When I opened the door, I saw the exorcist priest sitting behind the table wondering what he was thinking. There were two teacups in front of him.
"Master, are there guests?"
Zou Zhaoxing asked.
"Yes, Taoist Tulong from Gezao Mountain is planning to settle down in Jiuquan Town in the future."
"If you count this person, you would still call him Uncle Master, but he has evil intentions and settled in Jiuquan Town. I don't know whether it is good or bad."
The exorcist was a little worried.
"Slay the dragon!"
Hearing this name, Zhang Heng was silent for a while.
Isn't this a burly Taoist priest who transports opium in the name of exorcising corpses?
Speaking of which, this person's strength is not bad, but he is only slightly weaker than the exorcist Taoist Priest.
Unfortunately, he died miserably. He encountered a zombie in the basement. Because he couldn't see anything, he lost in confusion.
"The dragon slayer has appeared. I wonder if the plot of the Exorcist Taoist Master will also begin."
Zhang Heng glanced at the Taiping Sword while thinking about it.
It didn't matter at first. As long as he and the exorcist were here, a half-zombie, half-vampire alien wouldn't be able to cause any trouble.
church.
late at night
call!!
In the second secret room in the basement, the Bible pressed on the sarcophagus spontaneously ignited instantly.
The next second, the lid of the sarcophagus was suddenly opened from the inside and fell heavily to the ground with a 'boom' sound.
"Um?"
In the church, Father Wu, who was sleeping soundly, suddenly woke up.
He put on his reading glasses, lit the oil lamp in his hand, and walked down the stairs to the first floor.
To the eye, there is nothing.
"strangeness!"
Father Wu held up the oil lamp and looked around, muttering: "The sound clearly came from downstairs. It seemed like something had fallen. How could it not be there?"
at the same time.
The Dragon Slayer in the west courtyard of the church also woke up.
He got dressed, picked up the mahogany sword and talisman bag and jumped out of the window, standing in the courtyard and looking straight at the barn, because behind the barn was the passage leading to the church basement.
"Could it be a fake corpse?"
To save trouble.
Tu Long placed the walking corpse in the basement.
It stands to reason that walking corpses do not have access to the moonlight and popularity, so there should be no risk of corpse fraud.
But he heard clearly, the sound came from underground.
He couldn't think of anything other than the transformation of the walking dead.
"What a hassle!"
I no longer think about slaying the dragon.
He held the mahogany sword in his hand, tied the talisman bag around his waist, took the oil lamp from the wall, and walked to the basement.
"strangeness!"
Went into the basement.
Tu Long took an oil lamp and took a look. He saw eight walking corpses standing together neatly, with no trace of fake corpses.
It's not a corpse scam.
Where does the sound come from?
Tu Long had a look of disbelief on his face, and he held up the oil lamp and turned it around.
"Um?"
After walking a few steps, he suddenly saw that the door to the second secret room was open to the outside.
If I remember correctly, the door to this secret room was closed when I came to check it out at night.
"Mayor Ye?"
"Master Ye?"
"Is it you?"
Tu Long walked forward slowly: "Stop making trouble, I saw you, come out, this kind of joke is not allowed."
quiet!
No one answered.
Uneasiness gradually rose in Tulong's heart. He tightened the mahogany sword in his hand and walked towards the second secret room with a gentle pace.
As far as I could see, there was no one in the second secret room.
There was only a sarcophagus inside. The coffin was open and the lid was lying on the ground.
There was a burnt Bible at the door, but nothing else was found.
ticking
Tulong's neck felt cold and he felt water dripping on his neck.
The next second.
He raised his sword to stab without thinking, but missed the target.
When I took a closer look, there was nothing on it. There were water droplets on it, but it was just too humid.
"ah!"
Tulong turned around.
Facing him was a zombie wearing a dress and sticking out its fangs.
Without having time to think, he subconsciously stabbed with his sword, and the tip of the peach wood sword penetrated directly into the zombie's abdomen.
call!
Tulong breathed a sigh of relief, took out another corpse-suppressing charm and stuck it on the zombie, muttering: "I was shocked, I didn't expect it to be so easy."
brush!
The zombie bit down directly on the dragon's neck.
He struggled hard and the oil lamp fell to the ground. With the last light, he saw two lines written in Chinese and English on the wall: "Beware of vampires."