Ring of Seven [Publication Edition]

What the hell, isn't your Huzi brother and Mao blind both dead?What kind of thing is this? "

Cuiniang's eyes remained calm, and she said, "As long as we bring all the clay tablets on the seven-star copper pillar with us, without those clay tablets, we can't open the last mechanism in Guo Pu's tomb."

Liu Fei still wanted to argue with her, but was stopped by the beggar. She approached Liu Fei and said, "Liu Fei, something is wrong, this sister Cui is too weird..."

Liu Fei was startled and looked at Cuiniang.Cuiniang walked back and forth along the stone, as if she was looking for something.Feng Luxi, who was silent at the side, suddenly yelled, "Ghost! There is a ghost!"

Beggar looked around vigilantly, suddenly realized something, and whispered: "No, the corpse that fell with us before is gone!"

Feng Luxi rushed towards Cuiniang as if out of control, grabbed Cuiniang's neck, and said: "You are a ghost! You are a ghost!"

After all, Cuiniang was a woman, and she stretched out her hand to Lin Xu in pain for help.Seeing this, Lin Xu rushed forward and knocked Feng Luxi over with a punch.Feng Luxi wanted to go up again, but was restrained by Liu Fei.Feng Luxi blushed, pointed at Cuiniang and said, "She's a ghost, she's a ghost...I should have found out a long time ago!"

Liu Fei controlled Feng Luxi, and Feng Luxi turned to look at Liu Fei and said, "You don't believe me? Let me tell you, Cui Niang in that grave is actually dead. Why did she come back? She was killed by that tomb at all. The master is possessed!"

Cuiniang still looked at Feng Luxi with a cold face, and said, "If you don't believe me, then you will never find Guo Pu's tomb."

Feng Luxi continued to yell, but at this moment, Master Kui Liu yelled: "Stop making noise! ​​Miss Cuiniang, since you said you know, then please lead the way and tell us what's going on."

Cuiniang nodded and said, "I know."

Feng Xixi squatted down clutching his hair in pain, Liu Fei patted him on the shoulder helplessly to signal him to calm down.At this time, Lin Xu grabbed Cuiniang's arm and frowned at Cuiniang.Cuiniang was still expressionless, but the moment Lin Xu met her upper eyes, Lin Xu saw a trace of pain and helplessness in Cuiniang's eyes, which was like the pain she had to deal with Huzi's body in the first place.

Lin Xu let go of Cuiniang's arm and said, "Let's go, we trust you."

Cui Niang forced a smile, which was the first expression on her face after she came to this underground village.

The beggar supported Kui Liuye and said, "We have to be careful with that corpse."

Beggar gave Lin Xu a wink, and then gestured to show that after the corpse rushed over, Cui Niang began to look like a different person.

Lin Xu nodded.Liu Fei asked suddenly: "By the way, beggar, how did you find Cuiniang?"

The beggar said: "It's a long story, in short, we not only lost the blind man this time, but also the godfather... We didn't know that you had arrived until we met Cui Niang who came to look for you."

Cuiniang waved her hand to signal them not to speak, and everyone held their breath. Under the weak light, they seemed to hear the cry of a child deep in the village.

Liu Fei said quietly: "How could there be a child?"

Hearing the crying, Cuiniang moved her mouth, as if she was muttering something, but she didn't make a sound.Lin Xu noticed that Cuiniang was crying.She listened to the cry with tears, and then she turned her head and said to everyone: "Get out of here first, let this place stay underground forever. As for those flying corpses, they are actually activated by the twin energy of yin and yang. As long as this twin energy disappears, those corpses can rest in peace."

The beggar said, "Sister Zhai, didn't you say they were cursed?"

Cuiniang nodded and said, "Yes, so they still have to continue worshiping, there is too much blood here..."

She continued as if she had made up her mind: "Okay, let's go to the ancestral hall of this underground village first, and worship the owner here, otherwise we won't be able to leave this place."

Feng Luxi said viciously: "You can't go there! This woman can't be trusted!"

Liu Fei shouted: "Then what should we do? We have no other way to go. Will you take us to Guo Pu's tomb?"

Feng Luxi shook his head in frustration, and said, "Aren't you afraid that she will harm us? Is she the same person as that little lady back then? Your heads were kicked by donkeys?"

Liu Feifei kicked it directly, and Feng Luxi was kicked so that he turned over and coughed in pain.Liu Fei said with a cold face: "I tell you, it doesn't matter if you go or not, if you don't go, just hand over the board, since as long as you have the board, then I don't care whether you live or die!"

Feng Luxi looked at him fiercely, Lin Xu raised his hand to stop Liu Fei and said, "Okay, let's leave first."

In addition to stones, some crock pot fragments can be seen around the underground village, which maintains a static state.Cuiniang seems to be very familiar with this place, leading everyone along the way.

Lin Xu found that the houses here were very old, earlier than the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and in some places there were still blue bricks with lotus patterns from the Han Dynasty.The houses are basically built with yellow mud walls, and many houses have no roofs. It is likely that they were only thatched grass at first, and have decayed into ashes after years of changes.However, the layout of the house is very neat. If it is restored, it may really be like a peach blossom garden.

After passing through rows of orderly houses, they felt a gust of wind blowing in front of them. The wind was mixed with a sour smell like vinegar, and they didn't know what was ahead.Cuiniang signaled them not to stop, but to keep going.

At the end, they came to a place like a stalactite cave, and the sound of water droplets could still be heard faintly.In the depths of the cave, there is a square altar made of blue and white jade and stones. Compared with the houses that passed by before, it looks much more elegant, but the damage is very serious. The huge bluestone slab altar cracked into three pieces, and The stone roof was also almost half collapsed.Opposite the altar, there is a huge natural stone wall, in which there are shining mica ore, which looks very dreamy.In front of them was a large black sandy beach, and they didn't know where the sand came from. It was very different from the geology here, and it looked very abrupt.

Liu Fei pointed to the stone wall and said, "Look, there are paintings on it!"

The beggar raised the torch and illuminated the stone wall. Indeed, the totem painted with ocher could be vaguely seen on it. The painting was a picture of the worship of the immortals in the sky, which was almost all-encompassing.In the picture, humans are only a very small part, almost at the same level as those animals. The murals exaggerate the status of the fairy world, and there seems to be no difference between humans and animals.

Cuiniang knelt down towards the rock wall, kowtowed three times cautiously, and then said to the others, "Kneel down."

Lin Xu and the others hesitated for a moment, but did as they did.The moment Lin Xu bowed his head and knelt down, he found that the sand on the ground was a bit strange, so he reached out and got a little bit in his hand, and rubbed it subconsciously. He suddenly found that the sand was actually the corpse of an insect, and it was crushed into powder when he kneaded it. .

Beggar also noticed the strangeness of the sand. He frowned but still knelt down. As soon as he knelt down, he felt that there were still some insects that were not dead. It seemed that there were several crawling on his knees.She was about to get it off, but Cui Niang shook her head and said, "Leave them alone, they are just ordinary Zingicicadas."

Qi'er resisted the itching and numbness of his knees and gritted his teeth without moving. Liu Fei and others saw that even a woman like Qi'er was so tough, so they also knelt down on the sand full of bugs and slammed on the sand. There were three beeps.After kowtowing, he looked at Feng Luxi and said, "It's your turn."

Feng Luxi cursed, but followed suit.Although the insects are very dense and itchy at first glance, as Cui Niang said, they don't bite, they just crawl around on the knees and fall to the ground after a light dusting.Everyone breathed a sigh of relief, and the beggar helped Kui Liuye to kneel down too, but Kui Liuye didn't move, but looked at the worms with pale faces and whispered: "Could it be God's will..."

"Godfather, what did you say?"

Master Kui Liu shook his head and said, "It's nothing, I just thought of the past."

The beggar smiled and said, "Godfather, it's okay, we've gone through the stormy waves, and when we get out, I'll continue to fight devils with you."

Master Kui Liu touched the beggar's head with a dazed look, and said, "You look more and more like your mother." However, just as Master Kui Liu was about to kneel down, the bugs suddenly dispersed as if frightened. Open, before everyone reacted, those bugs quickly gathered together and crawled towards Kui Liuye.Although Kui Liuye was seriously injured, his life was at stake at the moment. Holding his breath, he jumped out in the air, but due to the pain, he would never be able to perform that kind of effort a second time.

Beggar sees that Master Kui Liu is in great trouble, and picks up a torch to burn the insects, but Cui Niang grabs him.With murderous intent in his eyes, the beggar shouted coldly, "Let go!"

Cuiniang was also a little annoyed, she raised her voice and said, "We can't kill the bugs here, otherwise we won't be able to get in!"

The beggar saw that Kui Liuye, who had saved his life, was in danger, so he didn't care so much, and said fiercely: "If the godfather dies, then I want you to be buried with him!"

Cuiniang held Qi'er's hand, and Qi'er pulled out the dagger, a white light flashed, Cuiniang's arm was cut with a bloody gash, but Cuiniang still didn't let go.Beggar didn't want to kill her at first, but seeing that Kui Liuye had no choice but to retreat, she stabbed directly at Cuiniang as soon as she was cruel.At this time, Kui Liu Ye shouted: "Stop, beggar!"

The beggar was furious, and Kui Liuye said, "Cui Niang, can you take them into Guo Pu's tomb? Answer me!"

Cuiniang froze for a moment, nodded her head and said, "Yes! But we must not harm the bugs here, I really don't know why they attack you!"

Master Kui Liu laughed while covering his wound, threw a pendant at the beggar, and said, "Retribution, retribution! When I killed Axiu, she said that I would be eaten by ten thousand insects, hahaha, retribution! "

Beggar's face turned pale when he took the jade pendant, and the dagger fell to the ground, watching Kui Liuye take several steps back.Kui Liuye laughed and looked at Qi'er in pain, he fell down slowly, and said with his last breath, "Qi'er... I'm sorry..." Then there was no more sound.

The bugs were still focused there, they didn't recede, but more and more, and soon became a small hill, and then the small hill gradually shrank.

The beggar held the jade pendant in his hand and murmured, "Axiu...it's my grandma..."

Cuiniang fell beside her, unable to stand up anymore.Liu Fei asked: "What's going on? Cui Niang, didn't you say that nothing will happen? Why did Master Liu do this?"

Cuiniang didn't have the strength to answer him, she just put her hands on the ground and said, "Retribution..."

The beggar squeezed the jade pendant tightly, then hung the jade pendant around his neck and put it in his clothes, saying: "Cui Niang, let's continue on our way..."

Cuiniang looked up at Beggar's face, and said sadly, "You don't call me Sister Cui...are we sisters anymore?"

The beggar lowered his head and clenched his fists, and said in a low voice, "I don't have a sister, nor a godfather."

Lin Xu helped Cuiniang up, and said, "Don't be sad, beggar, let's find a way to get out now, and let's talk about the future."

The beggar didn't speak any more, and retracted his dagger without saying a word, took one last look at the mound of dirt, and asked calmly, "Is there any connection between my aunt and these bugs?"

Cuiniang replied: "I don't know. But the Zhe people have a very wide network and more branches. A large number of them merged into the Miao border and became the Miao Gu people, so they don't rely on sects or families to continue. As long as you have the sting insects and use them Those who practice this way are all the Zhe people, but they are very secretive, this is also the reason why the Zhe people are stiff and not dead."

Beggar nodded and said, "My grandma is indeed from the Miao people. Could it be that she is from the Zhe clan?"