Chapter 253 Jinjiang
Lu Xingxing felt like he was about to question his life.
He swore that he really learned a lot from his master Taoist Song Yi when he returned to Haiyun Temple. This time, he was absolutely serious and did not slack off!
Not only that, he was also forced to memorize a lot of classics and manuscripts that were dozens of centimeters thick. He almost vomited from memorizing so much, and was also scolded by his master. Those days were simply a dark time for him.
When it was time for him to participate in the filming of this episode of the program, several senior uncles and Taoist priests specially tested his homework, and only let him go after he passed the test.
When leaving the Haiyun Temple mountain gate, Lu Xingxing's eyes were filled with tears and he was crying with joy. He finally understood the pain that normal students went through in making up lessons and taking exams. He felt that he was finally liberated and could have fun.
Because of this, he has a deep memory of what he learned during that period.
In order not to experience that kind of memorization hell again, Lu Xingxing can pat his chest and guarantee that even if he forgets his name, he will never forget the talisman!
But his inflated self-confidence was smashed to pieces by the shadow puppets and dead bodies all over the yard.
Why doesn't this spell work?
This is impossible!
Lu Xingxing twisted his ten fingers into noodles, but it didn't work at all, and made him look more like a mentally retarded idiot in the village who played with his fingers.
"Really? Believe me, I really know how to do this!"
Lu Xingxing looked at Song Ci with tears in her eyes.
Song Ci: “…………”
Song Ci decisively told Nan Tian: "It's up to you. Use whatever you can remember. Anyway, with this stupid dog here, the situation won't get any worse."
"Hey! Master! Listen to me...Ahhh my fingers are cramping! It hurts so much QAQ!"
Lu Xingxing held her fingers, grimacing in pain, tears welling up in her eyes.
Song Ci broke off the dilapidated door panel next to him with one hand, swung it in his hand and hit the corpse that was chasing them. With a "bang" sound, the corpse's head exploded and flew away.
The crisis at hand was temporarily resolved. Song Ci then turned back to look at Lu Xingxing speechlessly. He had no temper at all towards this guy who had lost so much blood that his hands and feet were weak.
"...Lu Xingxing, do you dare to be more handsome than three seconds?"
Lu Xingxing blinked and felt that he had always been handsome.
He was even named one of the top ten most handsome musicians last year!
Song Ci sneered and didn't believe him: "If you can do it, the Song family's company will be given to you."
Lu Xingxing: Why do I feel a little heartbroken? Is it my illusion?
However, even after saying this, Song Ci still sighed and resigned himself to helping Lu Xingxing pry open her tangled fingers.
"I'm telling you the truth. This isn't my fault. There must be something fishy going on in this museum that has made all the spells and other magic ineffective."
Lu Xingxing said worriedly: "I think this place is more dangerous than what we have encountered before, and far more terrifying than what we have seen."
Song Ci rolled his eyes, obviously not ready to believe Lu Xingxing's words: "You have no credibility anymore, stupid Xingxing. If Brother Yan said this, I would believe it. What do you say?"
Song Ci looked Lu Xingxing up and down, then exclaimed, "Ha!"
Lu Xingxing: “???”
I feel like you are mocking me. Is it my illusion?
Nan Tian looked at Lu Xingxing with sympathy but didn't dare to say anything when Song Ci was obviously unhappy.
Besides, he was just guessing.
——He had the same feeling as Lu Xingxing.
Because Nantian was confirmed to be the last person left in Nan Village, he is the descendant of Grandma Nan, and he is also willing to protect the folk customs of Nanming Mountain and pass on the good culture there.
Therefore, the two sisters handed over all the things left behind in Nanming Mountain to Nantian. After roughly explaining to him some techniques and inheritance, they put all these things behind them and happily went to run the B&B with the proprietress.
Thanks to this, Nantian, who is of the witch's bloodline, has a rough understanding of these things.
Although he was definitely not as good as Yan Shixun, even any untrained Taoist boy in Haiyun Temple was better than Nantian, but at least he had some epiphany and could vaguely feel something.
When Nantian racked his brains to drive away the shadow puppets and corpses, he was surprised to find that even the little he knew was useless.
However, he was a novice after all, and he had no confidence in his own judgment. He just thought that he was not well-trained and had only a superficial understanding, so what had worked before was not working now.
But if Lu Xingxing, who comes from an orthodox Taoist background, says so...
Nantian began to waver in his judgment again.
He really felt that this place seemed to block the heaven and earth, and even they themselves were not human. Instead, those shadow puppets looked more like ghosts.
Nantian even wondered if they were in a painting, just like the stories from Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio he had heard before.
But no matter how you listen to it, it seems a bit outrageous. Afraid that Song Ci would laugh at him, Nan Tian also kept his mouth shut after learning from Lu Xingxing's experience, and prepared to wait and see.
The reason why Lu Xingxing and the other person were able to escape from the room was because Nantian opened the door and created a way for them to survive in the room with no exit.
So, Lu Xingxing wondered if the same thing happened to other people.
Several people checked their memories and confirmed which room each guest was in. Then, while being chased, they did not forget to look around the room from time to time to see if anyone else had escaped.
After all, Lu Xingxing knows some Taoist magic, but the others are just ordinary people. Xie Lin, who was with Nantian, could disappear, let alone the others.
Lu Xingxing was worried that they only had a short chance to live, so he was afraid of missing them and made sure to make sure he could spot the others as soon as they appeared.
Unfortunately, no matter how many times he looked, the room was still empty, and Lu Xingxing's hopes were dashed bit by bit.
He was bending his cramped fingers and mumbling about the matter, unable to figure it out.
But at this moment, Lu Xingxing's ears moved, and suddenly he heard a "dong!" coming from the next room.
He looked over in surprise, then his eyes were filled with surprise, and he immediately jumped on one leg and rushed over there.
Because the wound on his ankle had not healed, the only way to slow down the blood loss was physical means. So for Lu Xingxing, the entire injured foot seemed to have disappeared at the end of the leg. When his foot was placed on the ground, it hurt as if he was walking with a broken limb.
So he had to run forward in a funny and unfamiliar way, jumping on one leg. In his hurry he forgot about his injured foot and dropped it to the ground again, screaming "Awooo! Awooo!" in pain.
Nan Tian was stunned, and Song Ci looked disgusted: "What is this guy going to do?"
Lu Xingxing determined that the sound he heard came from the room that An Nanyuan and Zhao Zhen went to visit.
He pushed the door open excitedly, with his friend's name still stuck in his throat, when he saw a life-size wooden skeleton facing the door, falling towards him.
The sound that Lu Xingxing just heard came from this skeleton.
The skeleton's fingers were still pointing straight forward, and were about to go towards Lu Xingxing's chest, just like a knife stabbing into his chest.
Lu Xingxing screamed and quickly jumped to the side on one foot, holding onto the door.
With a "bang", the skeleton fell to the ground.
Lu Xingxing also saw the situation in the room clearly.
An Nanyuan and Zhao Zhen stood in the depths of the room, but they were surrounded by a circle of wooden skeletons, some large and some small, all looking at them in unison.
And those skeletons move.
The wooden skeletons moved forward step by step, the encirclement gradually narrowed, and their outstretched arms pointed at the two people in the middle, and they had no way to escape.
The two men rushed left and right, trying to break out of the encirclement.
But those skeletons were polished to be fine and round, except for the finger bones which were sharp and would leave a cut if touched by it.
An Nanyuan's clothes had been torn into rags, and he looked like a handsome beggar.
An Nanyuan, who was screaming in despair, suddenly noticed that the light in the room became brighter, as if someone had turned on the lights.
He looked up in confusion, but through the skeleton in front of him, he met the eyes of Lu Xingxing who was standing at the door.
An Nanyuan was stunned for a moment, then instantly became excited: "Stars!"
He waved happily at Lu Xingxing: "Come on! We are here, come and save us!"
Lu Xingxing was also very happy. He leaned against the door sill and shouted, "It's impossible to save him! Find a way to get out quickly!"
What Lu Xingxing actually wanted to say was that there was something strange about this place. All his spells and magic were ineffective, and his foot was injured. He really couldn't jump over a threshold of almost half a meter like this one. An Nanyuan and Zhao Zhen had better come out quickly. The yard outside is much safer than inside, and Nantian is there, so they can help each other.
But after thinking about it, it was too much to say, and he was a little tired from losing too much blood, so he didn't want to say such a long list, so he simply abbreviated it.
This caused a misunderstanding between the two people in the room.
An Nanyuan: “…………”
Then why are you so happy?
Zhao Zhen shook his head helplessly, but was not too disappointed.
They have been together for such a long time, how could he not understand Lu Xingxing?
Besides, he and An Nanyuan had just inexplicably appeared in a village, and there were skeletons chasing them everywhere. He was also self-reliant, and Lu Xingxing had not been in his plan originally, so there was no disappointment now.
However, Zhao Zhen still felt something strange.
When I was in the village, every house was empty. It didn't feel like a real village, but rather like it was painted, and had been painted for a long time, with even the paint oxidizing and fading.
That’s why the colors are so gray, but there isn’t even a scratch on the building.
Seeing that he and Annanyuan were about to fall into a desperate situation and were being chased by the skeletons, they ran towards the lake. They stood by the lake, with water in front of them and pursuers behind them. It seemed that the only way to escape was to jump into the lake and swim away.
But just before Zhao Zhen proposed this method, the village behind them began to collapse with a loud rumble, and the skeletons began to chatter their teeth in fear, as if they had encountered something extremely terrifying, and even began to run away.
Zhao Zhen and An Nanyuan looked at each other, full of question marks.
What happened, an earthquake? Or are they really that scary?
But before they could figure it out, the scene around them suddenly changed. There was no village or lake anymore, but they returned to the room they first visited.
As soon as they opened their eyes and saw clearly, they found that the wooden skeletons placed around them actually turned their heads and looked at them, then walked down from their original stands and support frames and surrounded them.
Annan was almost going crazy.
At that moment, his mind automatically began to play horror movies he had seen before, puppets that moved, puppets that killed people, puppets that killed their masters and took over their masters' identities...
Before the skeletons could actually kill them, An Nanyuan was about to be driven insane by his own associations.
However, he felt that he would have a phobia for things carved from wood from now on.
——Oh my god, this is too scary! I can’t stand it.
Zhao Zhen remained calm. Even though he was surrounded by wooden skeletons, he still shouted to Lu Xingxing at the door: "Xingxing, just stand there and help us open the door. We will rush out in one breath!"
Lu Xingxing's eyes lit up and she instantly understood what Zhao Zhen meant.
"Oh, I understand! And close the door immediately after you come out, right!"
Zhao Zhen's eyes lit up with smiles, and he answered loudly, "Yes!"
An Nanyuan, who was standing next to them, looked at the two people with complicated eyes: Conspiring loudly? You guys are just bullying these skeletons who have no brains or intelligence.
However, since Lu Xingxing was unable to use the talisman and they were under siege, this was indeed the best method they could find.
An Nanyuan grabbed Zhao Zhen's hand, took a deep breath, closed his eyes, and rushed out screaming "Ahhh!"
The sharp finger bones of the skeleton left scars on their bodies, but the two men ignored them and rushed out desperately without caring about the injuries.
If you are afraid of getting hurt, you will become more and more restricted, and in the end you won't even have the possibility of escape.
It is better to seize the opportunity now and fight for a chance of survival!
Lu Xingxing also cooperated very well.
He watched the two nervously, and when they were about to rush out, he had already clenched the door tightly, calmed down and began to count down, ten, nine, eight...
The moment the two of them jumped over the threshold and rushed out, Lu Xingxing immediately slammed the door in his hand with a "bang", then pressed it down with his own weight, and quickly locked the door without stopping for a moment.
Because Lu Xingxing's timing was too tight, the wind caused by closing the door blinded An Nanyuan's eyes, making him feel like he was slapped in the face.
The two of them landed on the ground outside the yard and barely stood still. Zhao Zhen supported himself on his knees, breathing heavily. Then he laughed when he saw Lu Xingxing still busy with the door.
Although the process was very thrilling, fortunately they escaped and found several companions, which was also good.
When Song Ci and Nan Tian saw the two people rushing out, they were stunned for a moment, and then shouted each other's names in surprise.
"I didn't expect that Xingxing actually did something useful for once."
Song Ci smiled and glanced at Lu Xingxing, then said to Zhao Zhen: "But it's great that you guys are back."
Zhao Zhen smiled: "Indeed, Xingxing is very powerful."
He said sincerely: "In fact, I was worried that Xingxing might not have timed it right and would close the door just when Nanyuan and I ran out, locking us in. But the facts proved that Xingxing did it."
Song Ci laughed out loud: "That's something a fool would do."
Lu Xingxing, who had just locked the door, looked up and heard the conversation between the two.
He leaned against the door panel where the skeleton was locked inside and banged on it, and hurriedly felt like a dog that had been kicked for no reason.
Lu Xingxing: I feel like I was bullied by these two people.
Before they could go look for the others who hadn't returned yet, they suddenly felt the entire shadow puppet museum shaking violently.
The dead tree in the yard cracked and slowly fell down. The corpses and shadow puppets also staggered here and there, trembling as if in fear.
Several people staggered to steady themselves, and asked in surprise: "What happened? An earthquake?"
As soon as they asked the question, they found cracks appearing on the ground beneath their feet, and the same cracks appeared in the sky. Flames burned around the golden-red sun, and the sky began to curl and turn black, with a pungent burning smell coming from it.
Lu Xingxing looked up and suddenly felt that this scene reminded him of the shadow puppet stage in the room before, and the window they saw in the room that was regarded as a hanging painting.
It was as if the entire sky was the curtain of a shadow play, the candles were swaying and tipping over, the flames engulfing the curtain.
The entire shadow puppet museum, including the sky and the earth, was a constructed shadow puppet stage. But now, the set scene began to be destroyed, burned by the flames, and everything that was fake began to collapse.
Just as several people were panicking and wondering what was going on, the entire courtyard suddenly collapsed, bricks and stones rolled down, and dust flew everywhere.
Two figures vaguely appeared in the dust, and came together under the light of the burning golden-red sun.
Lu Xingxing narrowed his eyes, but before he could see the faces of the two men clearly, his survival radar started to sound.
So Lu Xingxing immediately realized that it was his master’s aunt, it must be his master’s aunt!
The person walking next to the master's aunt was obviously Yan Shixun.
Lu Xingxing jumped excitedly, waved his arms and shouted, "Uncle Master! Aunt Master! We are here!"
The others were stunned at first because of Lu Xingxing's words, but after forming a first impression, they looked at the two people again and they did look like Ye Li and Yan Shixun.
For a moment, everyone was shouting Yan Shixun's name excitedly.
Yan Shixun looked at the people in the yard, pondered for a moment, and asked Ye Li: "When did you become so close to Lu Xingxing? He is just like a husky that gets crazy and excited when someone comes home."
Ye Li lowered his eyes and smiled: "Maybe it's because he knows that in addition to his uncle, he also has an aunt."
Yan Shixun opened his mouth, but before he could answer, a little blood appeared in the corners of his eyes.
He coughed, turned around and looked at the people in the yard again. After counting the number of people, he found that there were still a few missing.
"They are probably trapped in other shadow play performances. Let's go and find them."
The smile on Yan Shixun's lips gradually faded: "But this is still not reality. We have just returned to the outer shadow puppet stage from the deeper level of the shadow puppet show."
When this matter was mentioned, Ye Li's expression became grim.
He snorted coldly and became even more angry towards the guy who took advantage of the ebony statue.
However, why did his image from thousands of years ago survive?
Ye Li's pale and colorless lips were pursed into a straight line.
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