But the faces of the other two people were covered with clouds. Shanhai blamed himself secretly and couldn't help sighing. How could he lose such an important thing? And throw it into a well like that. He has never been a careless person, maybe
I was used to messing around with them, so I relaxed now.
Taoist priest Lin did not mean to shirk responsibility. The most important thing now was to find a way to find the pen. At noon, they discussed and tied a rope to the waist of Shanhai and tied a bell. Mu Wan pulled
Over there, watch him perform a well throw.
It's not that he's afraid of not being able to get up, but that there's no movement down there, allowing Mu Wan to decide whether to go down to look for him.
The well was very deep, perhaps because there was no water. It was dark and cold down there, not like summer at all. He cast a spell to light up the torch he was holding and found that it was too empty. It would take at least two people to reach the well.
The wall below is a cave that cannot be fully illuminated by torches, and it is pitch black.
He tentatively searched around. The rope was not long, and he could not go too far. Wherever the fire light reached, there was nothing.
When he reached the extreme length of the rope, he suddenly tripped over something, but was immediately caught by the rope. The bell rang for a while, and Mu Wan shouted loudly from above.
"fine--"
His voice came up from below, but there was no response. Mu Wan could also guess that it was much louder down there than they thought.
"Come up quickly, Shanhai," Aluan put his hands in front of his mouth and shouted, "The ghost story has to break the rope at this point——"
Pooh.
Shanhai didn't want to pay attention to her and lowered the torch. He saw that the stone that was tripping him had a strange shape. Most of it was buried in the soil, with a gray-white section exposed.
It's definitely a bone.
He tried to pull it out, but it was difficult. The other part was buried deep. When he was about to give up, a cool breeze blew from nowhere. The wind was not strong, but it just blew out the torch. It reminded him of Aluan just now.
The advice was heartless, and he felt something was wrong in his heart. When he reached the bottom of the well, he quickly climbed up.
"No." He shook his head regretfully.
The three of them walked back into the room disappointed, ready to discuss new countermeasures. As soon as they entered the door, the familiar figure of Lord Jiyue sat at the table again.
Mu Wan had a bad temper: "You are so elusive. Why are you always thinking about us and laughing at us?"
After that, she threw the rope hard on the table and sat aside. Jiyue Jun put the black cloth back on and glanced sideways in her direction, somewhat covering his head.
"Ouch, what's going on? You have such a bad temper."
Shanhai didn't say anything either. Only Aluan answered, "The pen is lost."
This answer was something Ji Yuejun never expected.
"It's really yours. Where was it lost?"
"In that well, Shanhai was dragged down by Kuang Gu, and when he came up again, the pen was gone," Aluan said.
"Do you have anything else that is a token of Liangyue-kun's body?" Shanhai asked him.
Lord Jiyue shook his head.
"Where can I find this for you, Kuang Gu? Is there really a monster causing trouble in this village?"
"It's not that you Wu Chang didn't work hard, but you left the mess to us." Mu Wan was still not angry.
"It's unjust." Mr. Jiyue spread out his sleeves, "Decades ago, Mr. Uoyue was active in this area. Even if something went wrong, it's not my fault. The Lord hasn't punished me yet, but you have punished me.
It's not appropriate to scold him! Besides, we care about people's affairs. As long as this monster doesn't cause a big mess and hurt too many people, we can't care about it."
The table was silent for a while, no one knew what to say.
A few people stared blankly, and for just half a stick of incense, Shanhai frowned and stopped talking.
"Maybe, well, it's not really impossible."
The three people looked at him again.
"I was in Xuanzang Town this morning and I heard that there is such a person who can command hundreds of corpses and can also identify people by touching their bones."
"Is there really such a person? It's just a legend."
"Are you talking about Bai Skeleton Master Shi Wuqi?"
As soon as Mr. Jiyue answered the question, both of them stared at him.
"you know?"
"Ah, not really, I just heard a little bit about him. He is very famous, and he was suspected of participating in the extermination of monsters decades ago. However, his reputation among monsters is even greater. They say that he only likes to have sex with monsters.
The business, and even the barrier of the Weeping Corpse House, are all set up for strangers. The ability you said is true, but the ability to recognize people by touching bones is only for humans, not monsters."
"In other words, is this true?" Dai Luan asked.
"Then go look for him and try your luck? Although it sounds like he is not an easy master to deal with."
Mu Wan thought like this, then looked at Shan Hai. Shan Hai said that he had heard his method. So the two of them got closer and began to discuss how to meet the Hundred Skeleton Master. Ji Yuejun held up his wrist.
Face, feeling bored, waved his sleeves to Aluan and called her over.
"Luan'er, do you know why Xuan Chong Town is called Xuan Chong Town?"
"Who can say for sure? It's just a name. Maybe the first person to name it just thought of it."
"That's not necessarily the case. Just like your Dailuan City, it was originally named after the distant mountains. And you are that magical bird. Furthermore, your master was born in the sea and grew up in the mountains, so he got this name."
"Then why isn't his name Haishan?"
You ask his master.
——This answer seemed inappropriate. Mr. Jiyue thought for a while and said:
"For him, the meaning of his growth is more important than his origin."
"Then what is Jiyue-kun? December?"
"That's true, I did die in the twelfth lunar month. But guess, why is Xuanzhuang Town called this?"
"I don't know." She answered simply.
Lord Jiyue changed his hands and continued to hold his face.
"In this Xuanzhu Town, the rice that used to grow was all black. Whether it was native-grown or white rice and wheat brought from other places, as long as it formed ears on this land, it would all turn black. However, it seems that
It’s not harmful to people if they eat it. That’s not the case anymore.”
"So, it's the ears of wheat?"
"It's not that simple. People didn't live there originally, they all moved from other places. At that time, there were always demons doing evil in this area during festivals and festivals. People called him 'haunting'. This demon has a terrifying aspect and extremely powerful power."
It was so strong that no one could do anything to it. Later, an onmyoji named Seventh Dusk suppressed it and sealed it in the well - of course, it was much more powerful than the monster in the backyard. Dusk let people sit on it
He built a shrine and suggested that people build a village and use Yang Qi to subdue it. At first, people didn't dare, but then things went smoothly and people felt that his words should be believed, so they slowly gathered around there."
"Then there was Xuanzhuang Town?"
"That's right. The town has developed very quickly. It only took more than a hundred years from the time the evil spirit was sealed to now."
"What about Onmyoji?"
"He was reincarnated a long time ago, but his descendants have been guarding the shrine. But thirty years ago, the monster broke through the seal. Although it was suppressed, the priests and witches of the shrine suffered heavy casualties, and the bodies could not be identified. Rumor has it that
He said that the last person people saw standing on the ruins of the shrine was the Lord of the Hundred Skeletons."
"Wow"
When it got dark, Lord Jiyue left. It was not that Mu Wan had never thought of asking Lord Jiyue to search for them, but if he wanted to ask for help from him, she would really feel uncomfortable, let alone
He may not necessarily agree. Shan Hai feels that the fault for this matter lies with him, and it is inconvenient to trouble others.
He had already reached an agreement with Miss Liangqiu and was going to leave tonight. She actually suggested that he rest for another day, but the business was not settled and he himself could not sleep well. He said that he would go first and they would ride there early tomorrow morning.
Wait for him at the inn. He has negotiated with the owner of the corpses and will go find them.
In the morning, he headed towards the white fish belly on the horizon. Who would have thought that on the same day, he would head towards the smudged ink again. When he arrived at the mass grave beside Xuanzhuang Town, the sky was already filled with
The vast starry sky.
The scale of this mass grave is indeed not small, and looking at it, it is indeed worthy of its name. There are no tombstones, and even if there are any, they are cheap commemorative stones with shallow characters engraved on them that are difficult to read.
There are white bones everywhere. In addition to people, there are also some weird-shaped bones, but only a few are intact. Perhaps they were buried too shallow and were dug out by nearby animals. When he first came here, there were a few vicious dogs.
Approach him aggressively, with a fierce look in his eyes.
These little monsters that have eaten human flesh are very ferocious, but they are afraid of fire no matter what. Master Lin just lit a charm, and the dazzling red light scared them away. There was only phosphorus fire, and there were balls of faint blue and green.
The fire burned irregularly, disappeared quickly, and ignited again in another place, as if it was alive.
It was too difficult to find a coffin. Most of these bones were discarded randomly and no one took care of them. Is it possible to dig three feet into the ground? This is too unkind and damaging to one's moral character. He stepped over the broken bones and finally saw a coffin placed outside.
The coffin. He apologized, lifted the lid of the coffin, and was prepared to see a highly decomposed corpse - think about it, it would be terrible to have to lie there all night!
However, when he opened the lid, he found nothing.
He breathed a sigh of relief and couldn't help but wonder if the owner of the coffin put it down himself. Although it was old, it was still clean. There was some dust, but at least there was no terrible smell. It was nothing more than the feeling in his heart when he lay in it.
The diaphragm should be at the point.
Lin Shanhai really lay in the coffin.
The bottom was very strong, but also very hard. Although he was not the type who couldn't sleep without a mattress, the atmosphere and the annoying things that happened really made it impossible for him to fall asleep so easily. He sat up again and again like a corpse.
, I was thinking about whether to close the coffin lid. Just close it. I’m afraid it will be stuffy. If I don’t close it, I always feel unsteady.
After much deliberation, he pulled up the coffin board and left a thin gap. Through this gap, he could just see the stars in the sky.
In the distance were the strange cries of little monsters, and from time to time the terrifying howls of wolves could be heard. But he didn't sleep well last night. He was very sleepy after a day of high stress. He felt his eyelids slowly getting heavy.
, sleepiness came to him. He used to say that Aluan had a big heart, but now that he thought about it, it was quite embarrassing for him to be sleepy in a place like this.
After thinking about it, he really fell asleep.
"The child is so old."
"Yeah, it's already so big."
In his dream, he vaguely heard two strange yet familiar voices. A man and a woman, one singing and the other harmonizing.
