Chapter 129: Hades changed hands, only the south of the city could be saved
Boom!
Thunder sounded.
Purple lightning flashes across the sky.
It also illuminates the faces of children with strange smiles beside the bamboo bridge.
"ah!"
I don’t know who screamed first.
Everyone forgot their fear and rushed towards their children, either wrapping them in their clothes or hugging them tightly.
"The boy from the West's family is the girl from the East's family.
My sister lost her brother and apologized.
There is nothing in the river that you can find in the mountains.
Find bandits in the mountains to eat people.
…
The boy's body is covered with skin.
There is a rubber band on the skin drum.
The rubber band was peeled open and white bones were revealed.
The bones were extracted and sacrificed to the five internal organs..."
The children did not struggle and allowed the adults to hug or carry them.
But You was singing a song while turning his head to look at the center of the circle.
His expression was numb and his smile was stiff.
"Stop singing! Shut up!"
"Tiedan Dong'er! What's wrong with you! Don't scare me!"
"What are you guys looking at? There's nothing there!"
…
"Oh, how do you know there is nothing?
So, doesn’t it count?
Cluck cluck..."
In front of the bamboo bridge, a boy wearing a brown robe faced the rain curtain, opened his arms, and rotated his body as if dancing.
He let out bursts of clear laughter, but it was like the whisper of the wind, which could not be heard in the world.
He let out a low laugh, but there was no smile on his face.
It’s not that he didn’t smile, it’s that there was no trace of flesh on his face, and he looked like a skull!
His whole body, including the inside of his robes, were all covered in bones, without even an inch of muscle.
"Keke, Mrs. Chu is gone, and no one can control me anymore. How wonderful!
None of you are allowed to leave! No one is allowed to leave! You all have to play with me!
Anyone who dares to leave will be sent to the mountains to be eaten by bandits!
Even if you fall asleep, you must continue to play with me!"
The Bone Boy lowered his arms and screamed forward.
A white light flashed through the air, stripping away the rainwater.
Raindrops flew forward one after another, surrounded by white light.
In the blink of an eye, it had penetrated into the brows of those twenty or so children and melted away in an instant.
The children stopped singing and closed their eyes, as if falling asleep.
But their expressions changed drastically, sometimes laughing happily, sometimes struggling in pain, as if they were trapped in a nightmare.
Among the children, only one was fine.
It was a little girl of six or seven years old. Her eyes were clear and clear from beginning to end. She was not bewitched like other children. The reason why she came to Zhuqiao was just to join in the fun.
At this time, I watched the children in the neighborhood faint one by one. They closed their eyes and fell asleep, sometimes laughing, sometimes screaming.
She finally realized something was wrong, turned around and threw herself into the old woman's arms, crying "Wow".
Everyone also discovered such an exception.
"Why is she okay?"
"Whose baby is she from?"
"She seems to be the daughter of Sun Dalang's family."
"But why is she the only one who is okay?"
It was raining heavily. Everyone ignored their questions and picked up their children. They rushed home in a hurry.
"Huh? There is actually a fish that slipped through the net. Go to sleep with me and continue to play with me in your dreams!"
A flash of white light flashed in the White Bone Boy's eyes, and he was about to perform the technique again.
Suddenly, a low-pitched chanting sound sounded in his ears.
Although it subsided instantly, it made him tremble all over and his movements became slow and heavy.
"Huh? What's going on? Could it be that she has a protective talisman made by an expert?"
The Bone Boy flew to the girl's side and looked around for a long time, but couldn't find it.
At this moment, it was slightly startled.
But I saw a red cinnabar dot painted on the girl's forehead between her eyebrows.
Just one glance, and his head was buzzing? It was like thunder, frightening it and making it fly away quickly.
"Heavenly moxibustion? Such power? Could it be that it was ordered by an expert?
Hiss... that one didn't mention that there are still experts in Wenhe County now.
You should stay away from this girl!"
…
The rain is pitter-patter? It’s beating against the eaves and windows.
It also hit hard on the hearts of the Zhang family.
Tiedan and Dong'er seemed to have slept to death? No matter how much Zhang's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law called, they would not wake up.
A table of cold dishes and cold wine.
The cold air blew in from the window.
The crying from the neighbors next door...all of it made Zhang's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law exhausted mentally and physically, and extremely tormented.
The door opened, and Lao Zhangtou and Erlang walked in.
"What did Doctor Shen say?"
"Where is Dalang? Where has he gone?"
Lao Zhangtou's face was solemn: "Doctor Shen said that the children are suffering from aphansia, and how to treat it specifically... He was just looking through medical books and hemming and hawing, and he doesn't think it's going to work."
Erlang said: "Eldest brother and a group of fellow villagers have rushed to Lafang Lane to find the Lu Shen to arrest him."
Mrs. Zhang looked hesitant: "But Lu Shenping is a policeman, not a doctor. Is that possible?"
Lao Zhangtou sighed: "He is the only talented person in the county that we can hire. Apart from that, I really don't know what to do. Why did this happen during the Mid-Autumn Festival? Hey
!”
The daughter-in-law hugged the two children and started sobbing.
Mother-in-law Zhang's eyes were also red: "I put all the vegetables in the pot first, so that when the children wake up, they can have a hot bite."
She carried the dishes back to the kitchen.
When he walked to a deserted place, two lines of tears fell from his eyes.
The appearance of her grandchildren reminded her of her youngest son Saburo, who died young when she was young.
At around the same age, about seven years old, I caught a cold and became bedridden and never woke up again.
"... We must not let anything happen to our Zhang family again..."
She was holding on to the wall and sobbing when suddenly she heard someone calling her from behind.
"It's okay, someone will come..."
She just treated her as her daughter-in-law, wiped away her tears, put a smile on her face, put the food back into the pot, and then turned around.
Suddenly, her heart skipped a beat.
He saw a short, thin figure standing in the shadow beside the stove.
With a double bun on his head and thin arms and legs, he is clearly a child of seven or eight years old.
"Which house did you go to the wrong door..."
Before Zhang finished speaking, she saw the child raising his head and looking at him.
"Mom, it's me, Saburo."
Buzz!
Mrs. Zhang felt her scalp numb and a slight chill spread all over her body.
Her youngest son has been dead for nearly twenty years. Every year during the Qingming Festival, the family burns paper money for him, but now... what is going on?
Facing that young face that had appeared in her dreams countless times, her nervousness gradually relaxed, and she couldn't help but step forward to hug Saburo.
The child quickly backed away.
"Mother, please stop. People and ghosts follow different paths. If my child comes today, he has actually violated the law of the underworld."
Zhang's eyes were full of tears, she reluctantly stopped, raised her arms and then lowered them.
"Sanlang, it turns out you are always here... You are here tonight, but is there anything you want to say to my mother?"
The child smiled and said: "After the child died, he was not reincarnated, but was forcibly detained by the Bone Boy King and became one of his playmates. It was the Bone Boy who took away the souls of my nephew and niece tonight...
...No, he’s coming to find the baby!”
The child's face suddenly became nervous and he said hastily: "There are hundreds of ghosts causing trouble in the county tonight, all caused by the change of ownership in the underworld.
However, in the south of the city, there is a great king of the underworld living in seclusion! He is mysterious and extraordinary, and his true body is a person from the underworld!
If mother can beg him, she will be able to protect my two nephews from the bones!"