[Forget Envy] Short Story - The Bell of the Soul

In the next few days, the soldiers of the Lan family set out in multiple ways, overturning many undiscovered ghosts and ghosts that had been hiding in various places in Gusu in the past, and solved some hidden worries for many years. Due to his achievements, Gusu Lan's reputation became even louder.

On the third day after returning to the wild after the natural disaster, Lan Wangji and Wei Wuxian brought a dozen or so disciples to one of the villages that were more severely affected. Because it was near the upper reaches of the river, it was also one of the first places to suffer. One, basically most of the entire village was submerged, and none of the villagers survived. The situation is very miserable.

They decided to deal with it in two ways. Wei Wuxian is responsible for retrieving the corpse from the mud. After all, the ghost way is more beneficial in this aspect. Instead of slowly digging the mud to find the corpse, it is better to let the corpse crawl out and drive away Go to Lan Wangji's side for purification, and then go to the ground for peace.

The sound of the flute began to echo in the village. Wei Wuxian stood on the half-submerged roof, quietly searching for the souls of the dead, from the beginning to the end of the song, waiting for the dead to emerge from the wet mud out.

When the flute was played for the third time, the first muddy hand finally came out of the mud, and then the other hand also stuck out of the mud, one after another corpses came out of the soil, some Old and young, men and women, their grievances are not very heavy, just because they haven't realized the fact that they are dead, so even if Wei Wuxian uses petitions, he still has to wait for a while to have any effect .

Just after playing a song and driving the walking corpses to the circled positions, Wei Wuxian put away his flute, crossed his hands around his waist, and watched the children of the Lan family deal with the follow-up. It was getting darker and darker, just like after watching a puppet show, the lights were dimmed and the curtains were drawn. He simply closed his eyes, and carefully groped for the position of the roof tiles, allowing himself to sit down.

In the past three days, Wei Wuxian always experienced different abnormalities after using Chen Qing. Sometimes he was very drowsy, sometimes he suddenly couldn’t hear the sound, and he had to rely on his mouth shape to guess what the other person said, sometimes he had no sense of touch. , sluggish sense of smell, etc., but this time it was more serious, the eyes were completely dark, and I couldn't see anything.

These situations usually only last for a short period of time, and soon return to normal. Now he pretends to close his eyes and rest, listening to the movement around him. Wei Wuxian is a little lucky. When the situation just happened, Lan Wangji was not by his side. Ruoguo Falling down because he couldn't see would definitely arouse Lan Wangji's suspicion.

What Ju Ce's murderous corpse consumed was the energy of his primordial spirit. It would be a lie to say that he was not tired, but the abnormality caused by this has never happened.

"Senior Wei, let's take care of them, we can start driving them to Hanguang-jun."

Wei WuXian heard the voice from the back left, so he opened his eyes and pretended to look at the other party, saying, "I feel that there is still some resentment in the soil, I will wait a little longer, you go first."

"learn."

Hearing the metallic sound of Yujian behind him, once, twice, and three times, all the disciples who followed him left, and he was the only one left in the whole village. He took out the petition from his waist, and blew a note, Then someone fell beside him.

"Young master?"

Wei WuXian said, "Wen Ning, take care of me for the time being, if anyone approaches, please let me know."

Wen Ning saw that his pupils lost their brilliance and asked, "You can't see?"

Wei Wuxian smiled wryly and said, "I can see that? It's okay, just wait a little longer and it will return to normal. Lan Zhan can't let him know."

Wen Ning sat next to Wei Wuxian and said, "It's not very good for you to hide from him."

Wei Wuxian said seriously, "At least not at this time, we can no longer burden him. What happened in Gusu recently is enough to worry him."

After a while, Wei Wuxian saw the outlines of some images. He rubbed his eyes, his eyesight seemed to return to normal. Counting the time, the abnormal reaction of the body this time took longer to recover than before. It's getting worse.

Standing up and looking in the direction where Lan Wangji was, the deceased's grievances were gone, and the ritual of purification and salvation should have been completed, so he asked Wen Ning to continue looking for the monster, while he went to meet Lan Wangji.

Wei Wuxian walked quietly behind Lan Wangji, originally intending to surprise him, but there were too many fallen leaves and broken branches on the ground, and as soon as he stepped on it, Lan Wangji had already noticed it.

Lan Wangji frowned slightly, pulled Wei Wuxian closer to him, reached out to caress the corner of his eyes and said, "What's wrong with your eyes?"

Too bad, because it was in the dark for half an hour, he hurried over after regaining his vision, and forgot that his eyes were affected by the sun's light, which made them teary, and Lan Wangji's eyesight was amazingly good, and he could see right away. strange.

Wei WuXian grabbed his hand, turned his head and said, "It's okay, I just looked directly at the sun unintentionally just now, it's too dazzling, so I feel a little uncomfortable."

Lan Wangji said heavily, "Looking directly at the sun hurts your eyes, don't do it again."

Wei Wuxian looked at the small mound with a smile and said, "Understood, they are buried in the ground for safety? Where are they going now?"

Lan Wangji said, "It's still early, let's go further upstream."

Wei Wuxian followed Lan Wangji upriver as if nothing had happened. He held Lan Wangji's hand while looking at the surrounding scenery. After walking for more than 30 miles, Lan Wangji stopped in front of a lake, quietly Quietly pay attention to the surrounding environment.

Lan Wangji said solemnly: "It should be nearby, search around, be careful not to act alone."

All the children said in unison: "Yes." Then they spread out and set up barriers around the four directions.

Wei WuXian squatted down by the lake, put his hands in the water for a while, and said, "There are no water ghosts in the water, so what will be here?"

Lan Wangji said quietly, "This lake doesn't exist at all."

Wei WuXian opened his eyes wide: "Doesn't exist?"

Wei Wuxian put the lake water in his hand in front of his nose, indeed he smelled a heavy resentment, he stood up and put his hand to his ear to listen carefully, he heard the voice of the murderous corpse, the voice echoed throughout the forest One after another, it was a bit confusing, I didn't know the correct position at all, and I heard a strange sound of "gurgling".

Lan Wangji asked, "How?"

Wei WuXian didn't know how to explain it, he frowned and said, "There are a lot, there are a lot of murderous corpses, why are there so many?"

A lake that didn't exist...the sound of gurgling...a lot of corpses...could it be...

Just as Wei Wuxian was about to speak, a roar came from not far away, and then several white shadows retreated from the woods: "Hanguang-jun! It's a tree demon!"

It was a tree demon hundreds of years old, its thick branches made a frightening snapping sound, like a palm with fingers, the branch grabbed one of the disciples who couldn't escape, entangled and half hung in the air, The others drew out their fairy swords one after another, which drew the tree demon to fight back even more fiercely.

It is relatively rare for tree demons to do evil. Basically, as long as they don’t do anything to harm them, they are just like ordinary trees. Especially this kind of old tree demons that have been around for hundreds of years sleep more than they wake up. It is estimated that half of its branches will be cut off before they will know how to be angry.

Lan Wangji reached out his hand to stop Wei Wuxian's movement, saying, "Stay here, don't wander around."

Lan Wangji walked towards the tree demon and said, "Set up the formation!"

The juniors took the lead and moved around to form formations. Lan Wangji raised his hand, and the stern Bichen from his waist shook out. The student who was hanging in the air immediately fell to the ground.

A large magic circle was launched, and dozens of fairy swords were drawn out, pointing directly at the tree demon, gold instinctively restrained wood, and the spiritual light turned into an illusory fairy-binding net through the sword body, binding the tree demon tightly.

Wei Wuxian clapped his hands and applauded, but the resentment of the murderous corpses in all directions was really worrying. After they solved the tree demon, they would be busy again.

"The tree demon that hurts people can't stay." Bichen issued a stronger blue light in a cold air. Lan Wangji swung his sword and walked lightly among the branches, causing many scars on the trunk, but for the As far as the dryad's incomparably huge trunk is concerned, it's just a skin trauma.

Wei Wuxian said, "The tree demon must have absorbed the grievances of the nearby vicious corpses, so it is more difficult to deal with."

The tree demon was cut down by Lan Wangji's Bichen and wanted to escape, but was trapped in place by the formation. The trunk moved and the roots were exposed, and the roots were buried deep in the ground in shock, entangled with the murderous corpse.

Lan Wangji was shocked, and Bichen immediately retracted his sheath.

I don't know who it was who suddenly shouted: "Dispel grievances, cut off the roots!"

Wei Wuxian was startled, and shouted at the same time as Lan Wangji: "Don't cut the roots!" "Stop!"

Everyone was stunned, but the sword had already been swung out, and they couldn't stop even if they wanted to. The dryad's fragile roots separated from the trunk in response.

Next, the tree demon actually started to wither. Seeing this situation, before the disciples had time to react, they heard Wei Wuxian roar, "Hurry up and escape!"

No one would have imagined that during the dozens of days of heavy rain, the tree demon would capture a lot of corpses to consolidate its territory. Therefore, after the storm, the accumulated water formed an illusion of a lake. As soon as the connection between the two is broken, the monster power cannot be withdrawn in time, and it will wither and die in an instant. At the same time, the lake water is like a dam breaking, and it is out of control.

escape?Can you escape?Wei Wuxian tried his best to stay away from the lake, but before he could take a few steps, his feet suddenly went limp, and he cursed inwardly: "Fuck! Why is there something wrong with this joint?"

Lan Wangji saw Wei Wuxian's abnormal reaction, saw him limp on the ground, and pulled out Bichen very quickly, but the lake water was faster and fiercer than he imagined, and the turbulent water could not be stopped even if he wanted to , even he himself was pushed back several miles, leaning against a tree and trying to stabilize his figure, he looked around impatiently, looking for Wei Wuxian's figure.

He waved Bichen with one hand, then turned over to hold the sword, and Lan Wangji flew low along the water. He saw other disciples washed away by the water one after another, but he couldn't see the person he wanted to find the most. The closest Wei Wuxian to the lake.

Lan Wangji's heart was about to jump out. With a pale face, he called out loudly: "Wei Ying!"

to be continued

☆, loose soul