Chapter 69: Red Cabinet
These millions of golden arrows shot back towards the city. There was only a scream from inside the city, and then someone shouted: "Shields raised!"
Qilang heard the sound of ping-pong, and the arrows must have been blocked by the shield.
"Your Highness, what should we do next?"
Qilang remained calm: "Just keep draining their energy."
"yes."
"Do we need to send troops to other places with weaker defenses—"
"No need to be so troublesome." After Qilang finished speaking, he threw the Tuling Flame Umbrella into the air. A huge demonic power rushed into the sky. Suddenly, black clouds gathered and heavy rain fell instantly.
Li Yuanying had just sent the messenger to tell everyone to quickly go inside and lock the door when she saw dark clouds gathering in the sky. Before she could react, black rain began to fall from the sky. She pushed Gu Jinzhi into a house on the street, and the black rain almost drenched her senior brother.
She knew that she had the demon core of the previous demon king in her body, and the black rain could not harm her. As expected, when the black rain fell on her, it completely avoided her body. Despite such a heavy downpour, she was not wet at all.
Fortunately, they had completed the formation long ago, otherwise, with Qilang here now, she would not be able to catch up by herself.
"Brother, remember what you promised me. Set up the formation at dawn tomorrow."
Gu Jinzhi was a little worried: "Then what are you going to do?"
"Tonight, I must get rid of the infant spirit, otherwise when I set up the formation tomorrow, the resentment will be too heavy and the formation will fail." After saying this, Li Yuanying disappeared into the night.
Li Yuanying found the tallest building in Chang'an. Standing on its roof, she could overlook the entire city. Under the baptism of black rain, the world was shrouded in the grayness of death. The black water flowed into streams on the ground, gathering in low-lying areas, reflecting the god of death from the sky.
Sob, sob, sob.
Sob, sob, sob.
The sound of a baby crying was heard from the direction of South City.
Li Yuanying immediately ran towards the direction where the baby was crying.
As she got closer to the sound, she saw a huge baby crawling on the ground, crying as he crawled. He seemed to be looking for something. He reached into every room with his fat little hands to dig out the people in the room, then sniffed them and sucked away their yang energy in one gulp.
This black rain seemed to have no effect on the infant spirit. His skin was not corroded at all. However, the person he pulled out was corroded into black bones the moment he encountered the black rain.
Li Yuanying prepared some talismans on her body during the day. She can't use spells now, but she can still use talismans.
She placed several explosive talismans in the alley, then walked to the entrance and shouted at the giant baby spirit, "Hey! You little brat, I'm here!"
Sure enough, her voice attracted the attention of the infant spirit. It moved its huge body and crawled towards Li Yuanying. When it passed through the alley where Li Yuanying had pasted the explosive talisman, the explosive talisman exploded, and golden rays of light pierced into the infant spirit's body. The infant spirit screamed in pain, tears streaming down its face.
Li Yuanying leaped into the air and pressed the sealing talisman towards the infant spirit's head: "Seal!"
She hadn't taken the infant spirit seriously at first, as she had dealt with many such strange creatures before, and it was a piece of cake for her. This time, things went smoothly. When the sealing talisman was placed on the infant spirit's forehead, puffs of black smoke emerged from its body, and the infant spirit seemed to be getting smaller and smaller.
When the smoke cleared, Li Yuanying saw the scene clearly and cried out inwardly, "Not good!" The huge infant spirit had transformed into hundreds of small infant spirits, which suddenly gathered together, enveloping Li Yuanying like a wave.
She tried to push the group of infant spirits away, but it was no use. After finally tearing off a few, countless more would come to bite her. Soon, her body was covered with bloody holes, and the gushing blood made the infant spirits even more excited.
Li Yuanying gritted her teeth, took out a blank piece of talisman paper, drew a talisman on it with her own blood, and then said, "Retreat!"
A blood-red light emanated from her flowing blood, and the infant spirits that came into contact with her blood began to burn. They screamed and retreated, while glaring at her fiercely.
Suddenly, the infant spirits began to mutter something. Li Yuanying couldn't hear what they were saying. The voices were shrill and ghostly, making people feel creepy.
With a thud.
The rain around Li Yuanying stopped, and she seemed to be dragged into another space by the baby spirit. A huge red cabinet appeared in front of her.
The cabinet is three meters high and three meters wide, and is covered with drawers, each of which has a copper ring.
Li Yuanying walked to the cabinet and smelled a familiar pungent smell. She reached out her hand and found that the cabinet was sticky. She turned her hand over and saw a bright red sticky liquid on her fingertips. She put it to her nose and smelled it.
Sure enough, it was a strong smell of blood.
The place where she touched revealed the original color of the cabinet - black.
So, this is not a red cabinet, but a black wooden cabinet stained with blood!
"Where's the doll's wave drum?"
A strange child's voice came.
"Where's the doll's wave drum?"
Seeing that Li Yuanying did not answer, the voice rang out again.
Li Yuanying didn't know what the owner of the voice was going to do, so she didn't dare to answer easily.
"It must be in the cupboard. Help the doll find it."
Li Yuanying still didn't speak.
"If you don't help the doll find it, the doll will be angry!"
As soon as she finished speaking, Li Yuanying felt something strangled her neck, suffocating her.
"Help the baby find the wave drum!"
Li Yuanying took out the talisman from her pocket, took out a piece, and threw it towards the red cabinet: "Show!"
The talisman exploded in the air, scattering sparks like fireworks, illuminating the entire cabinet, and the contents of the cabinet were revealed.
Li Yuanying was stunned. In each of these cabinets, there was a baby. Some of them were holding bowls, some were holding combs, some were holding musical instruments, and some were holding fruit...
Li Yuanying didn't dare to delay and quickly searched for the baby holding the wave drum. Just before the sparks completely died out, she found the baby. Li Yuanying flew over and opened the drawer, but the baby inside had disappeared, leaving only the wave drum lying there alone.
When Li Yuanying's hand touched the wave drum, a vague memory flooded into her mind. She saw the daughter of a farmer in a village in Chang'an City being brought into the palace. She was soon favored by the current emperor Zhao Yu and gave birth to this baby. However, because the baby was a girl, the baby girl and the palace maid were both sentenced to death.
The little baby was playing with wave drums before she died. She was holding her favorite toy tightly in her hands and refused to close her eyes for a long time.
Li Yuanying originally thought that these baby spirits might be victims of starvation, illness, or some families' preference for boys over girls. She never expected that these baby girls were the result of Zhao Yu's sins.
This is the price Zhao Wenyan paid for his birth.
She looked at the cabinet full of relics and her stomach began to churn.
Unfortunately, she no longer has any magic power, otherwise, she would definitely purify these wronged souls.
"Wa Wa also wants candied haws!"
Li Yuanying used another talisman and found the location of the candied haws.
Then, the baby spirit asked Li Yuanying for an abacus, gold hairpins, jade bracelets and other items. Li Yuanying found that there was no pattern in the baby spirit's requests for these things.
"Why do you ask me for these? Is it because you can't find them yourself?" Li Yuanying asked.
The baby spirit suddenly stopped talking. She was silent for a while: "I am so lonely."
Li Yuanying was stunned.
“No one plays with me.”
Li Yuanying was speechless for a moment. After a long while, she said, "But, I have something to do too. I can't play with you all the time."
Upon hearing this, the infant spirit flew into a rage: "You don't value me! You don't like me! Then why did you bring me into this world?"
Countless baby girls made the same scream, which made Li Yuanying's eardrum hurt.
At this time, the red blood cabinet kept shaking and became shaky.
Li Yuanying suspected that perhaps this cabinet was the real body of the infant spirit. She took out a sealing talisman, stuck it on the cabinet, and said, "Seal!"
A golden light flashed, and the cabinet spread out and turned into small drawers. They rushed towards Li Yuanying and surrounded her.
Li Yuanying had to use a blood curse to dispel these cabinets, and the next second, she was pulled into a new illusion.
Li Yuanying found herself standing in front of a row of quivers, with dozens of arrows at her fingertips.
"Guess which quiver I'm in? Shoot me and I'll let you go."
That strange voice sounded again.
Li Yuanying felt somewhat helpless, as if she had encountered a troublesome little ghost. She stretched out her hand and found it was turning white. Perhaps in reality, this infant spirit was sucking her yang energy. Those people must have forgotten the time while accompanying these little ghosts' unreasonable behavior, and then they sucked them dry.
Li Yuanying took out the development talisman, bit her finger, and drew along the development talisman again, then shouted: "Manifest!"
The developing talisman with her blood exploded into a beautiful red spider lily in the air. The red spider lily bloomed beautifully, spun, and finally landed on a quiver on the far left.
Li Yuanying rushed to the quiver with the arrow in hand and was about to insert it when she heard the strange voice continue to murmur: "Don't kill me, don't kill me!"
It seemed to panic and began to beg: "Please, don't kill me."
"I can spare your life, but you must first come out of this quiver."
"I won't. If I come out, you'll take me away."
Li Yuanying thought for a moment and said, "I can't. If you come out, I'll take you to buy candied haws."
"Really?"
Li Yuanying originally just wanted to test it out, after all, infant spirits are all children, but she didn't expect it to actually believe it.
A small white hand stretched out from the quiver, and a small head popped out from it. The doll had round glasses, a small nose, and two small braids, and looked very cute.
Li Yuanying felt reluctant for a moment, but she still cruelly took out a talisman and stuck it on the baby.
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