As soon as they came in, the torii gate behind them disappeared, as if there shouldn't be a door here. They were a little panicked, but they felt a little comforted by the thought that they could escape as long as they found the impermanence. But it was not a good thing to put all their hopes on this.
they know.
There is an unpleasant miasma in the Dead Man's Swamp. Dai Luan said it was produced when certain plants rotted in the mud. This gas should not be inhaled too much, as it will cause paralysis in people over time. She used existing herbal medicines
I made a simple veil with rags and temporarily used it to filter the substance. Although the air smelled bitter, it smelled much better than miasma.
The terrain is very dangerous. It is not endless. You can see the outline of hills around you, but you don't know how far away. There are no weeds like swamps here. Instead, there is a kind of dark green algae, which is very sticky. The soles of your shoes stick to it before wearing it.
When you get up, there will be a strange stench, like a fermented corpse. The mire in the depths is not ordinary brown, but closer to a reddish brown. They bubble from time to time and make a gurgling sound, as if they are about to
The smell of the thick boiled soup will never make anyone want to take a bite.
A slightly dry linear path cuts the quagmire into blocks of different sizes. This layout is similar to the cracked earth, but the swamp is larger and more dangerous. There are no traces of life here, or it can be said that life is here.
It became less like life and more like a squirming dead thing. They could not see any people, any birds or animals, only the sound of plants slowly rotting deep in the mud.
Shan Hai walked in the front, with Dai Luan in the middle. After walking for a while, they still could only see the diffuse miasma and the silent swamp, without a single person. Shan Hai looked back and found that Mu Wan was very behind them.
place.
"What's wrong?" He whispered, "What did you find?"
Here, no one dares to shout too loudly. It’s as if when you break the silence, something will emerge to break your body. Through the hazy ginger mist, Mu Wan slightly took the handkerchief away from his mouth
, said:
"I seem...I can't summon the shikigami."
"What?" Dai Luan felt incredible, "Can't the Tengu also do it?"
"No. I originally wanted to summon it to take us to the sky for a look. It's better than walking on foot. But it didn't work. I guess the blood contract was blocked in this barrier. I tried calling Xun or other methods
God came out, but it was of no use."
The short distance could not dispel the vague disappointment in his words, approaching despair. Shanhai took out a talisman and wanted to light an open fire, but was worried about igniting the swamp gas here. So he tried to light a cold fire, but failed
He found that it was useless. He became a little nervous and quickly took out the Bahuang Mirror. It looked like an ordinary mirror, and there was no use in trying it now. As for the compass, it could be clearly seen that it was broken by pointing randomly.
"I know..." he lamented, "there is a character on the barrier that I feel is familiar, but I can't figure it out. Now that I think about it, it probably means that all spells and sorcery will be ineffective here."
"It's not surprising. Otherwise, why would Miss Qi be locked out? The spiritual power is blocked here...but why?"
Shan Hai led them forward slowly, thinking: "Hundreds of years ago, General Huang Skull was sent here to lead millions of Yin soldiers to punish evil people who had evil thoughts about the world of life and death... And there he was.
Decades later, it was suppressed instead. Something must have happened at that time, and it was handled by the Lord of Naraku or by him."
"Maybe it's Shen Wujun." Mu Wan guessed.
"Probably. Something must have happened at that time, but no one can say. The barrier was set up at that time, and it was sealed here. Even so, they still left a strong mark in human legend... But
,in the end……"
He thought for a while again. The current situation is very unfavorable. Although it is still very quiet, it gives them an illusion, as if there is something dormant in the dark and ready to move. They cannot make mistakes, if there is a slight mistake, that thing will wake up.
.Although they don't feel that they are being monitored yet, no one knows what the standard of "wrong" is.
What's more important is that, except for Mu Wan's umbrella and Shanhai's fly whisk, there are no weapons that can be used in fighting. Without the protection of spiritual power, spells cannot take effect, and shikigami cannot be summoned... This is undoubtedly a fight behind closed doors.
A dog catches a turtle in an urn. Although no one does this intentionally, it always gives people the feeling of being calculated.
"I want to go to a higher place." Shanhai suddenly said, "The terrain is too low and I can't see the whole picture clearly."
Mu Wan asked him if he had discovered anything. His expression was uncertain, but he did have some ideas.
"I was thinking at first that since this array is very old, the layout might be the same as before. If I guessed correctly, the entire Dead Man Swamp is a large barrier, following the layout of the Nine Palaces and Bagua Array. These swamps are similar to those of the past.
The patterns on the land are all very particular. But I am not sure which house we are in and how to decipher it. This formation... seems familiar to me, I wonder if I have seen it often in the temple."
"We can go back after cracking it?"
"It's hard to say. Maybe it can open the door back, maybe it can use spiritual power, but it may also lead to riots. It depends on what we crack."
"Riot, riot? What kind of riot..."
"……I am not sure."
Dai Luan was a little panicked. This statement was as if Lin Shanhai was sure that something dangerous was sleeping. Although they all knew that there was indeed "something" here, otherwise there would be no need for the Dead Man's Swamp to exist. But now the dog cannot fly.
, the compass cannot be used, and he cannot judge what to do except walking with his feet.
The three of them didn't know if they were the first batch of living people to step into the Swamp of the Dead...but they were definitely not the last.
At this moment, the two people standing in front of the torii looked at each other.
"Aren't you afraid that the child will run away?" Lord Xueyue sneered.
"I don't think she has the consciousness to rather starve to death." Tang He turned to look back at the seal, "Why are you chasing after her all of a sudden?"
The Heiyu's ring finger appeared in the hand of Lord Xueyue. No matter which finger, the ring finger seemed too loose, and it was loosely rotated in his hand. He said easily:
"Yun Waijing said that all ghosts aim at the place where life and death meet."
"That's too much." Tang He was a little disdainful, "How are you sure they are here to find Wan Guizhi?"
"I'm not sure."
"You..." Tang He took a deep breath. For the sake of telling him where the child was, he couldn't have an attack. "Then how do you know what Yun Waijing said?"
Lord Kutsutsuki showed his sly face, like a real old fox.
"I saw it from Dai Luan's dream."
"...How can a dream be used as evidence?"
"There are no unfounded dreams in the world. All cause and effect are traceable."
All the words of Lord Xueyue reveal an unwarranted self-confidence. However, given that the people in front of him know his strength, this temperament cannot be said to be arrogant, but it can easily make others feel the same boredom when facing an arrogant person. Anyway, Tang He started from the beginning.
Oudu didn't have a good impression of him. He took a deep breath and spoke in a serious tone.
"No monster can pass through this barrier."
"so?"
"Aren't you going?"
"Who said I won't go?"
Tang He patiently took a deep breath again.
"Then you want to find another door?"
"Who told you?"
Every time it took no more than three sentences, Lord Xueyue could always successfully arouse the nameless fire in Tang He's heart. What was even more hateful was that he could always suppress the breath back into his chest before it came out.
"If you break it by force, it will be over."
"..."
Tang He stopped talking. He didn't think this was a rational idea. But since he also implemented the concept of "effectiveness" over "rationality", Tang He made no objection to this decision.
"This is a very old seal... Old does not necessarily mean powerful, but it proves that it should be replaced."
With a half-joking tone, Kuchtsuki-kun stretched out his other hand, lifted the cigarette rod, and lightly touched the formation of the torii. For a moment, a dazzling light burst out from the place where it bordered the seal, and that point
It was so bright that it was white. Sparks flew out, and the powerful demonic force crashed onto it with the force of bursting the embankment, making an extremely harsh sound, as if playing a piano that was tuned out of tune.
Something seemed to be melting, dripping golden liquid, flowing on the ground. It penetrated into the dry soil, corroding a large piece of soil with a horrible shape, full of vacuoles, but glowing with fluorescence. Kuchugetsu-kun's
Pushing his hand forward, the sound became sharper, and the front end of the cigarette rod almost burned through the barrier. Tang He could feel that the demonic power that hit the torii was reflected back, and the momentum began to weaken, which showed that the demonic power
It is gradually absorbed by the seal and gradually becomes fragile.
At this moment, Lord Xueyue suddenly raised his other hand, and several streaks of red light rushed from the skin inside the sleeve to his wrist, and he pushed it out. With a bang, the seal fell apart and slowly sunk inward. Eight
The densely packed runes gradually faded away, and at the same time, they rotated in the opposite direction towards the center, and the speed gradually increased.
A pure black vortex appeared, with red current splashing restlessly. When it hit Tang He's leg, he instinctively took a step back. Lord Kuchtsuki signaled to the whirlpool in the torii.
"Can't we go in now?"
"..."
He should have gone in first.
The seal was forcibly broken from the outside by "brute force". The people inside didn't know what happened, they only knew that something was happening. The ground shook for a while, making people almost unsteady. Mu Wan was slightly closer to the edge and almost fell
As she was about to fall down, Dai Luan suddenly reached out and pulled her up. The earthquake was accompanied by a distant sound and buzzing, but it did not last long.
"What, what's going on?" Mu Wan was still frightened, "Something... seems to have woken up."
"Maybe something happened outside." Shan Hai tightened his sweaty hands, "There isn't much time. There are already two Yang Yao in the place we passed. We should be in Qian Palace or Xun Palace, open the door or Dumen,
They belong to metal and wood respectively. Neither of them are evil, but I don’t think about the sudden change just now..."
"ah!!"
Dai Luan's scream interrupted him. A hand stretched out from the edge of the swamp and suddenly grabbed her ankle. When the mud receded a little, they discovered that it was not an ordinary hand, but a white bone hand.
The vibration has disappeared, but there are still ripples in the quagmire. It is said to be ripples, but it is black and red turbulent mud. There are more weird bubbles, and one after another something is arching out of it, like mud pillars one after another.
.This terrifying viscous liquid quickly slid down, and it turned out to be humanoid corpses one after another. Some of them were completely rotten, leaving only white bones, and some still had ulcerated flesh and flesh, giving off bursts of stench. This smell
It confirms why the smell in the air was unsettling in the first place.
A sour feeling surged into his throat, but before Dai Luan could spit it out, Shan Hai shouted: "Run!"
A pair of walking zombies slowly crawled out of the swamp, as if they were dissatisfied with the intrusion of the living and unified their actions under some kind of order. They were not fast, but they all held weapons in their hands. Many of the weapons were also rusty.
No one was seen letting go, it was as if these swords, guns, swords and halberds had grown up with them. Shanhai and the others did not have any weapons that could be used in direct confrontation. Even if they did, they were at a disadvantage in terms of numbers. There was no other way but to escape.
Law.
So, where should we run? The middle palace must be where General Mu is. If you go there, you will die. If you don't know where they are, you won't even know which direction to escape.