Thousand Lantern Night

Now Xiaohua was on guard, she sideways avoided the cup of boiling water.I quickly stood up, and pinched my own cheap hand desperately behind my back, so fuck it.I wanted to go over and apologize to Xiaohua, but I didn't know why my feet were nailed in place, and I couldn't move for a while.So I went straight forward and slumped down the street, hitting my face directly on the frozen ground, and instantly my nose became hot, and the nosebleed came out.

This time I was completely unprepared, Xiaobai was sleeping on my chest, and was almost flattened by this blow, so he let out a cry.Then there was a sudden movement in my chest, and I let out a long "uuh", which seemed to be a low growl of rage.

Then I felt like a fireball was being held in my chest, and I felt extremely hot all of a sudden.

The heat was just a moment and then disappeared quickly.Xiaobai moved a few times after that, seemed to find a comfortable position, put himself together, and continued to sleep.I thought to myself that the unicorn is really a strange species, and you can just sleep without eating or drinking, which really saves money.Then I felt a lot warmer on my body, tried to move my feet, and found that the feeling of being pinned disappeared.

I got up and wanted to explain to Xiaohua that maybe my feet were numb from the cold after sitting for too long, but as soon as I approached, Xiaohua immediately took two steps back, as if afraid that I would punch him again.I looked at my hands, hiccupped non-stop, and smiled awkwardly at Xiaohua.Xiaohua saw that I was too lazy to know as much as I did, she gave me a look like an idiot, and went back to her tent.

While eating, the fat man looked at me sadly, as if he had no appetite.Seeing that I was still eating happily, he couldn't help but looked at me with a bit of a headache and said: "Then what - what you said just now, the one who went crazy here a year ago, must not be naive. Since you're not naive, it's probably you. You can't remember at all, where did you come from?"

When the fat man said this, I was eating with my head down.I looked down at the few gnocchi left in the bowl, and I didn't dare to raise my eyes to look at him.The reason why I am so guilty is probably that I don't even have a decent name.I kept replaying the sentence someone said to me in my mind: "You are going to Hangzhou, find a man named Wu Xie, and then—"

Then there is no more.What a sin.

I had no choice but to shake my head: "Go and ask the villagers here tomorrow."

Seeing me like this, the fat man sighed and said nothing more.

After dark, Zhang Qiling came back.He didn't seem to be going well, he plunged into the tent with a cold face, and no one hit him face to face.The fat man got something for him, and when he came out, he said to me: "The little brother looked very depressed, and he was staring blankly at Hei Jin. It seems that the situation on the mountain is not good. How about you go and comfort him?"

I thought to myself, what comfort can I take?Thinking of the previous scene, he immediately trembled, and said angrily: "Are you short-hearted? Zhang Qiling is almost depressed to death seeing me, don't chop me up with a knife. You should go and comfort him yourself."

The fat man sighed and said, "Actually, little brother, it's cold outside and hot inside. But since he said on his face that strangers should not approach him, ordinary people wouldn't bother him. What's more, his skill, and his unknown origin, is the way to go. Some people want to use him, but they have to be wary of him. We are so naive and stupid—”

The fat man couldn't continue talking.He waved his hand, leaving me alone by the fire, and got into his tent.I sat where I was for a while, and finally climbed into Zhang Qiling's tent by some mysterious coincidence.

When he saw me, he spoke for the first time: "You are here."

I froze for a moment, remembering that after we met again in Beijing, he hadn't had time to pay attention to me, as if he only realized my existence at this moment.I still felt extremely embarrassed when I faced him, so I had to pretend that I was here to spy on the military situation: "Well—how is the situation above?"

Zhang Qiling was very calm, and moved a little inside to make room for me to sit. "Everything alive is gone—people, animals, anything alive. It looks like someone tried to use them to open the bronze door."

This remark surprised me, I always thought that the bronze door was opened with a ghost seal.I asked him: "The ghost seal that opens the door is not on you, so others can't open that door?"

Zhang Qiling nodded: "The key to opening the door of the ghost seal is not that the ghost seal is the key to a certain mechanism. It is that the door must be opened with the energy of the dead. The function of the ghost seal is to mobilize the energy of the dead."

I suddenly remembered that the last time Wu Xie and the others broke into the Heavenly Palace, they saw Zhang Qiling mixed in with the Yin soldiers, passing through the opened bronze door.Suddenly, those yin soldiers were actually the energy bodies of the undead, mobilized by Zhang Qiling with the ghost seal to force open the bronze door.Then he realized that he really had two ghost seals!Later, the piece sold by the New Moon Hotel was the one he left for Wu Xie on Changbai Mountain.

Hmph, this cunning dead oil bottle.Fortunately, this ghost seal is on me now, as long as I find the bronze door, I'm afraid I won't be able to open it?I'd like to see what the hell is the ultimate of all things!

Wait, since only the ghost seal can open the door, what are other people doing collecting necromantic energy?I frowned and said, "Didn't you lose the ghost seal? Someone picked it up? So those who know are going to use it to open the door?"

Zhang Qiling shook his head: "I guess, maybe someone has found another way to mobilize the energy body, and has already started to do it. The earthquake a few days ago may be caused by the wrong way they used, and what mechanism was triggered The Heavenly Palace has collapsed. The situation inside is estimated to be very bad."

With that said, I immediately agree.For example, in the Miaojiang Phantom Tomb last time, Zhang Yinzhen's foreign aid used modern instruments to guide the direction of thunder and lightning.Therefore, it is not impossible to invent modern instruments to realize the functions of ancient artifacts such as ghost seals and Jiuli pots.It's just that I have studied it deeply and have such economic strength, so I immediately thought of Jude Kao.

The old fellow has been working so hard on the magic of the ancient tombs, and I wouldn't be surprised if his men were doing it.But obviously, according to Zhang Qiling, although this group of people has made some achievements in research and put it into practical use, it is estimated that there are still some key things missing, otherwise they would not have made the situation so difficult.After all, some of the functions of ancient artifacts can be explained by modern science, while the other part is so mysterious that it may not be so easy to research.

I couldn't help having a headache, and said to him: "Now the ghost seal is the only one left in my hand, but last time in Chishui Town, it was sucked into a broken stone by the dead spirit on Wu Xie's body. If you don't need it what is it now?"

Zhang Qiling looked at me, but didn't answer directly.Suddenly, he stretched out his hand and pressed it against my chest.I was startled and instinctively wanted to hide back, but he said, "Don't move."

Huh?You fucking hit me in the chest!Tell me not to move?No, there is Xiaobai on the chest, Zhang Qiling is harassing Xiaobai?

I was a little dazed and said: "This—what is this for?"

Zhang Qiling said: "That day at the New Moon Hotel, you sucked Chi You's dead spirit into your body. That's how Wu Xie got out of trouble—thank you."

I was even more stunned.This time the hiccup was even worse, and Hiccup couldn't speak. "You mean, Chi You's undead, his mother is on me?" I want to cry, but who the hell wants to save you Wu Xie?This is not my intention at all!At that time, I just wanted to protect myself!So just now, the inexplicable loss of control of the limbs and the beating of Xiaohua, is it caused by his mother Chi You's dead spirit?

Thank you, sir.

Zhang Qiling smiled helplessly as he watched the traffic lights on my face constantly changing. "Don't worry, in fact, Chi You's undead no longer has the will of Chi You himself, but is just a complex energy body that has absorbed too much soul energy. It is only because this energy body is very powerful that it cannot be assimilated by other forces. It exists in clusters. But your unicorn seems to be able to balance his strength, so it shouldn't be able to attack you."

I drooped my head all of a sudden, laughing uglier than crying. "There's nothing to worry about. What the hell can I do." Subconsciously touched Xiaobai, thinking that Xiaobai is so amazing, if it wasn't for him, the one who was sucked out in the Crescent Hotel would not be the one who harassed Wu Xie. Spirit, but my true self.

Zhang Qiling said, "I'm sorry."

I can't remember how many times he apologized to me.Although this is useless and can't change anything, I also saw his helplessness, deeply trapped in fate, unable to get rid of it, but trying to pursue the trajectory.Anyone who changed it would not be able to bear it better than him.Because of this, I have absolutely nothing to do with him.

Originally, I wanted to ask him about my life experience and how much he knew, but because I was influenced by this emotion, I finally didn't open my mouth.Just sat side by side with him silently until the campfire also gradually went out.

In the early morning of the next day, Zhang Yinzhen also came back with a guide.

Zhang Yinzhen said that due to the situation in the above village, the military still needs to continue to search and investigate.So we couldn't go up for a while.But he has already communicated, and we will mix in the search team later and go up the mountain to search together.After crossing the snow line, head directly to Three Sacred Mountains.

The guide was a very young lad, probably in his twenties.It is very black, as black as the volcanic rocks on the snow-capped mountains.His body shape is also very strange, with an oversized head resting on his thin shoulders, and those two thin bamboo legs can be twisted into a snake's tail.

Fatty Mai Tai said: "This guide is not good, is it? With such a big head pressed down, don't stick your small legs in the snow and you can't walk?"

Zhang Yinzhen said: "We must have him. He was the one who brought up the previous batch of people who entered the mountain. Those people disappeared, but he was the only one who was able to go down the mountain. This shows his ability. Originally, he was arrested by the army. I just need him to use his spare energy to find the person in front of him, so he can make up for his mistakes."

I suddenly understood that Zhang Yinzhen suspected that the guide had a ghost, and taking him with him was actually monitoring him to prevent him from playing tricks in other places. We didn't know how to die.

I looked at the guide, and he happened to be looking at me too.The look in his eyes made me shudder for no reason.It's the kind of boy who is obviously only in his twenties, but how can he have the kind of eyes that seem to see through everything in the world.And although he looks strange, why do I feel that I have seen him somewhere.

I hesitated and looked at him again and again, and he suddenly grinned at me silently and very strangely.

Next, we have to wait until dawn, and wait for the search team to set off together.Taking advantage of this spare time, the fat man and I went to the nearest villager's house to inquire about the "kalenzi" that the hairy boy said.

The forest farm is relatively deserted, and the houses of the villagers are far apart. We randomly found a dilapidated old house on the far side of the hillside.It was still daylight at this time, and we knocked on the door for a long time before someone answered.

"Who is this early in the morning—" A man came over to open the door cursing, saw me first, and then froze.Then he suddenly pushed me away as if he had seen a ghost, rushed out of the door and ran away quickly.

The fat man reacted quickly, cursed and ran after him, followed two small dirt roads, and threw the guy down in the snow with a swoop.The guy resisted desperately, but the fat man took him by the collar and knocked it twice on the hard snow, before finally being honest.

"Damn it, the old boy probably did something wrong, or his mother ran like a grandson?"

The fat man wanted to kick him twice, but the guy hugged his head and cried loudly: "Stop hitting! Stop hitting! I didn't sell you! I just listened to Lai San's bad idea—"

The guy begged for forgiveness repeatedly, and we didn't know what he was howling.The fat man picked him up, pulled out a short knife and stuck it in the frozen ground in front of his crotch, threatening him: "Tell me everything you know, otherwise, I will send you to see Grandpa Mao!"

In fact, the fat man just said it casually, but he didn't expect that guy to confess something that we couldn't even think of.He pointed out that I was shaking like Parkinson's. It seems that the evil index between me and the fat man is very good.

"You, you, you—I can't help it either. I owe Lai San money, and Lai San told me to take you to the south to sell, so it's like paying off the money owed to him. I heard that this is a good deal. , I took you on the train just now, and I was going to find a connector to change hands—unexpectedly, I went to the cat building (toilet) and the person disappeared, and because of this Lai San beat me up—”

The fat man glanced at me.With a jump in my heart, I realized this guy was talking about my memory of myself, when I woke up on a train.I was so excited, this guy knows about me!Quickly squatted down and grabbed his chest, said: "Who is Lai San? Why did he sell me?"

The wretched guy trembled and said: "Lai, Lai San is a local wanderer here, he, he picked you up on the mountain. Anyway, you are a fool, and you can't do anything else except sleep in a daze all day long. It’s a waste of rice and noodles if you keep it. Lai San said, if you sell it, you can exchange it, how much money—”

As soon as I heard this, I was furious: "A fool can sell it as he pleases!"

"No, no, no—that's not what I meant. It was Lai San who said that you are not human, and you don't know what harm it is if you keep it——Lai San said that he saw a black unicorn carrying you down the mountain with his own eyes. Yes, at first he thought—he thought you had some supernatural powers, so he picked you up—unexpectedly, you are actually a kaleng—"

The fat man next to him pulled out a knife and put it on the guy's neck: "Take us to see Lai San."