Chapter 851: Find Xiaojiu?
Jiang Ci walked deeper into the dirt road. After about half an hour, the road came to an abrupt end and disappeared in the half-human-high weeds.
She jumped twice on the spot, thinking that she could just jump over by stepping on the weeds.
As a result, although his body became thinner, he was not as light as a swallow and could not jump at all.
She found a leg bone that belonged to someone unknown and pulled away the weeds as she walked.
Another hour passed and we finally arrived at the entrance to the Ghost Bamboo Forest.
An extremely heavy yin energy was blowing in her face, but strangely, she didn't feel any spiritual pressure.
The bamboo forest was deep, dark, and serene. Here, the air seemed to be still, and the entire area was shrouded in an eerie silence.
Jiang Ci didn't see any ghost, but the yin energy was so thick that it was hard to describe.
She had been here a long time ago. At that time, this place was a mass grave with no grass growing on it, and even the soil was a strange scarlet color.
As time went by, bamboos broke out from the land covered with bones. Countless dead bodies nourished the land, forming such a vast and terrifying ghost bamboo forest.
Jiang Ci stood there. Even though she didn't see a single ghost, she felt as if thousands of eyes were staring at her.
She threw away the leg bone and strode towards the depths of the bamboo forest.
The bamboo leaves began to rustle, and gusts of cold wind blew over, as if blowing away the fog, and the scene in front of me suddenly became clear.
Jiang Ci saw at a glance that three meters in front of him, there was a dead body that had been rotting for a long time strung on the slender green bamboo.
The man died in a very tragic way, as if he was tortured. Before he died, he was fixed to a bamboo shoot. When the bamboo shoots grew rapidly after the rain, the shoots pierced through his anus and grew wildly overnight until they pierced through his head.
The corpse was hung on the bamboo, swaying in the cold wind.
Jiang Ci frowned, suddenly realized something, and turned his head sharply to look.
She saw that every bamboo tree at least a hundred meters away from her was hung with rotten corpses.
When the wind blew, the bamboo swayed, and the horrible rotten corpse swayed with it. At first glance, it looked like an evil ghost with bared fangs and claws, demanding her life.
Jiang Ci said with a look of disgust: "This kind of illusion can't scare me, it just makes me sick."
The bamboos all paused, as if frozen.
"Come out, I have something to ask you."
All the rotten corpses raised their heads and looked at her. They had no eyeballs, only empty bloody holes, staring at her in an extremely sinister way.
Seeing that they didn't move, Jiang Ci simply scattered a handful of talisman paper like flowers from heaven.
The talisman papers fell in all directions.
“What the hell!”
"It burned me!"
The sound of ghosts screaming one after another was heard.
Jiang Ci's eyes flashed, and all the rotten corpses on the bamboo disappeared, but there appeared souls with various and more miserable deaths.
"What a brave little girl! She dares to break into the ghost bamboo forest alone." An old ghost with arrows all over his body came over slowly.
He looked Jiang Ci up and down, and he didn't think she was a mysterious master at all.
But the talisman she had just scattered really burned them.
"Eat her!"
"Such a delicate little girl must taste delicious!"
The evil spirits looked salivating.
"Let me eat first!" An evil ghost couldn't wait any longer and pounced on her ferociously to bite her.
Jiang Ci slapped him in the face with his backhand.
The evil ghost was slapped away by her for several meters and turned into ashes in the air.
Ghosts: “…”
The old ghost was stunned, his mouth opened wide, "What did you do to him? He's been dead for more than 200 years!"
Jiang Ci said indifferently: "I am just here to look for someone. I will save the soul of anyone who can give me effective information."
The ghosts looked at each other, and no one spoke.
The old ghost was the first to speak: "Looking for someone? There is no living person here."
"Ten years ago, a girl named Bai Chujiu came here. I need to know what she did after she came in and where she went afterwards." Jiang Ci's face was cold.
The ghosts still didn't speak.
Jiang Ci frowned: "Don't you want to be saved?"
"No." The ghosts shook their heads and said honestly, "We are so free in the Ghost Bamboo Forest. We get food delivered every now and then. The ghosts here are all talented. We are so comfortable. Why should we be saved?"
Jiang Ci was speechless.
The old ghost laughed and said, "I advise you to turn back quickly. There are people in the deep bamboo forest that you can't afford to offend."
Jiang Ci knew that this was only the outer area of the Ghost Bamboo Forest and there must be even more powerful ones in the depths.
"No one knows. I'll go in and ask." Jiang Ci was about to leave.
The evil ghosts were ready to make a move, but were afraid of being slapped into ashes by her, so they had to keep a distance from her, waiting for a ghost to subdue her, so that everyone could take the opportunity to get a piece of the pie.
During this period, there were also some evil ghosts who could not restrain themselves and wanted to attack Jiang Ci, but they ended up in a terrible way.
Jiang Ci walked around and found that he was back to the same place.
"Ghost wall?" She raised her eyebrows, "No, it's more like a magic circle."
There is actually a magic circle in this kind of place.
It seems that there is indeed a secret deep in the ghost bamboo forest.
Just when Jiang Ci was about to break the magic circle, a little ghost suddenly emerged from the group of ghosts.
"Master Jiang, I've seen the Bai Chujiu you mentioned!" The little ghost said confidently, "Ten years ago, she came in to collect herbs and was almost killed by the evil spirits inside. Someone rescued her and took her away!"
"Oh?" Jiang Ci remained calm, "What kind of person saved her?"
"Well...that man is wearing a Taoist robe and looks very powerful. He is just in the southeast of the bamboo forest. I can take you there!" The little ghost pointed in a direction.
Jiang Ci nodded: "Okay, take me there quickly."
The little devil floated ahead attentively.
Suddenly, a yellow talisman flew from behind and hit him heavily on the back.
The little ghost let out a shrill scream.
Jiang Ci didn't even look at him. He turned around and ran towards the depths of the bamboo forest, biting his fingers, chanting spells and drawing talismans as he ran.
"The sky is clear and the earth is bright, I step on the seven stars, the universe is righteous, the metal and stone are broken, hurry up as the law commands! Break it for me--"
The environment around me seemed to be rapidly receding, and a faint white light appeared in the darkness ahead.
Jiang Ci directly broke through the magic circle and jumped in with swift and agile movements.
There was a new house in front of me. It was old and covered with moss and vines.
She kicked the door open, dust and dead leaves fell, and a mouse fell on her shoulder.
Jiang Ci crushed the rat to death with his bare hands and threw it aside, then walked into the old house.
The old house looked like no one had lived in it for a long time. There were a lot of experimental supplies piled on the table, all covered with a thick layer of dust.
Jiang Ci picked up a record and took a look at it, only to find that the handwriting on it was actually Xiaojiu's!
"Did Xiaojiu spend all those years buried in research here during his disappearance?"
But the house looked like no one had lived in it for a long time, and it looked deserted and dilapidated.
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