Chapter 80 Kaifeng Weird Things
The cart creaked forward. The steepest section had already passed. It looked like they would soon be out of the mountain. Everyone couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.
No matter how they comfort themselves in their hearts, they are still worried and feel a chilling wind behind them, making their scalps tingle all the time.
Finally...
Finally, we are leaving this mountain!
However, as they pushed the cart onto the last stretch of flat, deserted road, something suddenly flashed before their eyes. It looked like fallen leaves blown by the wind, or rotten linen.
When they opened their eyes again, the sight they saw was enough to horrify them.
It was a dilapidated mountain gate with traces of burning and knife hacking, as well as several bloodstains that even time could not erase.
There was a half-stone standing beside the mountain gate, with three words engraved crookedly on it:
Small Tree Village.
The village that was massacred by the bandits was Xiaoshu Village.
"ah!"
Someone couldn't help but scream, but no one scolded him. Everyone's face was pale and their eyes were full of fear, as if they had seen the most terrifying thing in the world.
This is clearly what they saw when they first set foot on this desolate road...
How could...
How come it appears at the end of the road?
Could it be that...
The leader swallowed frantically. He felt his throat itching, his body trembling uncontrollably, and cold sweat on his forehead.
He opened his eyes wide, trying to see something different around him, to prove that they were just overthinking it. Maybe this was how the road was built, with mountain gates and stone tablets at both ends.
But, no.
What the leader was most proud of was his memory. His superiors appointed him as the leader because of his memory. However, at this moment, he hoped that he had remembered it wrong.
When they came, there was a crooked tree growing next to the mountain gate with dead branches and broken leaves. As they were in a hurry, he only remembered its general shape and could not tell what kind of tree it was.
Now, there was also a crooked tree next to the mountain gate, also with dead branches and broken leaves, but he could tell what kind of tree it was at a glance.
——This is a locust tree.
Sophora trees gather negative energy and bring bad luck. People in their line of work never plant this kind of tree. In the past two years, they even stopped planting peach trees. We should avoid things that should be avoided.
The leader felt as if his blood had frozen in an instant. An indescribable chill was surging up from the soles of his feet. He opened his mouth uncontrollably and a dying sound came from his throat.
How can there be so many coincidences in this world?
Exactly the same...
Exactly the same!
This is the beginning of the wilderness! This is the path they walked!
But they are clearly almost at the end...
End?
Head...what head?
"Top of the list? Top of the list!"
The men who sensed something was wrong shouted in trembling voices, but the leader standing at the foot of the mountain gate ignored them.
He suddenly felt something uneven and bulging under his feet, as if there was something buried in the soil...
What is it?
He moved his feet and looked down.
At this time, another gust of cold wind blew by, dispersing the dark clouds in the sky, and the moon hanging high in the sky shone with its cold light.
He saw it—a face, a woman's face.
Pale, gorgeous, slowly opening her eyes.
Then, the face suddenly opened its mouth, revealing a bloody smile.
The leader was so frightened that his mouth opened wide, his face and neck turned red, but he couldn't make a sound.
...something was stirring in his throat.
It hurts so much!
It hurts so much!
"Top of the list?"
A few men bravely walked up and hesitantly patted the leader on the shoulder. When they were about to ask them what to do, the leader, who always responded no matter what they called, slowly turned around.
Just one glance was enough to scare these eight-foot-tall men so much that they screamed in agony and fled in all directions, rolling and crawling.
"Aaaaaaaaaaah!"
"It's a ghost!"
"Ghost!"
"There's a ghost!"
Coo, coo.
Several dark mourning birds landed on the branches of the locust tree beside the mountain gate. They blinked their big eyes, and the color of their eyes changed every time the translucent nictitating membrane was covered.
From black to white, from white to green, and finally, to blood red.
They looked down at the stiffly turned human below, their sharp beaks clicking, their blood-red eyes clearly revealing their desire for food.
The leader's eyes were wide open, so wide that the corners of his eyes were cracked, and tears of blood flowed from his eye sockets. A pale hand covered with purple marks stretched out from his open mouth, and the five fingers dotted with blood-red nail polish waved around randomly, as if trying to grab something.
Click!
It grabbed the leader's jaw and crushed the bone easily like tofu.
The leader couldn't stop twitching, his eyes were bloodshot, his temples were bulging with pain, and the veins on his neck were about to explode.
The hand stretched further.
From the forearm to the upper arm, and finally...
Snap!
The leader split apart, and a naked, headless female corpse stood on the warm body, her feet stepping on the splattered ground, her body bathed in steaming blood.
Under the moonlight, it was strange and unusual.
Suddenly, intermittent screams and roars were heard from the dark forest. Some stopped abruptly, while others continued, but in the end, they could not escape the silence of death.
The woman and child in the cage were shaking terribly. Their vision was blocked by the black cloth, but the sounds outside seemed to have told them everything.
They no longer have to worry about the future, because they will soon be eaten by ghosts like those thieves...
The women hugged their crying children tightly, closed their eyes with sobs, and felt a sense of relief in their despair.
Being eaten by ghosts is better than being sold to a place like that...
Anyway, anyway...
They don't have to suffer anymore.
The silent female corpse moved. It twisted its thin body, dug out a rotten head from the blood-soaked soil, and slowly put the head on the half of its neck.
It twisted its neck to make sure its head would not fall off, then limped towards the six abandoned carts.
Xixishaoshao.
The sound of crawling came from far away in the woods, all around, and they were gathering here.
The moon in the sky was bright and cold, and the wind blew loudly, blowing away the sobbing cries of the women and children, as well as the only hope left in their hearts.
Not awake...
The man still hasn't woken up.
The woman who was hugging the man was shedding tears. She stared blankly through the gap at the corpse staggering towards them. The trembling tower in her heart that she had built collapsed, but she still did not loosen her hands.
The death of those thieves is a kind of compensation for them, isn't it?
The suffering people around her were shivering. The approaching footsteps were like a death warrant. They couldn't even run away and could only tremble and pray in despair.
They are about to be eaten, can you...can you let them die more quickly?
Just... just to die more quickly.
Bizarre ghosts crawled out of the woods into the moonlight. They could only barely be seen in human form, with naked bodies and extremely long limbs. They crawled on the ground like spiders, their faces rotted into a ball, and the smelly liquid dripping from them was the rotting and fermenting waste inside them.
They surrounded the six carts, dragging their limbs on the ground restlessly, and letting out terrible growls intermittently from their throats.
This is as close as they can get.
There seemed to be something in the cart that frightened them, but even so, they still surrounded the cart.
The female corpse was the best preserved among them, and also the most powerful. It stepped out of the circle formed by the ghosts, staggering more and more, and the closer it got to the cart, the lower its back bent.
Until it finally got close to one of them, its rotten head almost sticking to its belly.
The female corpse stretched out her trembling right hand and tentatively reached in through the gap in the black cloth.
"ah!--"
The people in the cage were screaming. They had already accepted their impending death, but they still couldn't control the fear in their hearts. They instinctively shrank back, scrambling to avoid the hand covered in corpse spots.
But the cage is so small, where can they hide?
Only the woman sitting in the middle did not move. She was holding a person who had not woken up yet in her arms. She took the initiative to move away and let the child hide behind her.
The hand reached out to her.
She stared at the dead man's hand, her cracked lips moved, and she didn't know what she was thinking of. A fierce look flashed across her eyes, and she suddenly stretched out her left hand, intending to grab the dead man's hand.
She could die, but she couldn't just sit there and wait for death!
At least...she will die before these children!
Bang!
The corpse's wrist was tightly grasped, but it was not a woman's hand, but——
The one in her arms.
"ah--!"
The female corpse whose wrist was captured suddenly let out a terrible scream. It was clearly dead, but at this moment it felt the most severe pain in the world.
It struggled so frantically that its fragile body became twisted, and the hand that reached into the cage was broken into several pieces in the blink of an eye. The full arm seemed to have all the flesh and blood sucked out, leaving only a thin layer of skin covering the broken bones, and the five fingers were twisted beyond recognition.
But no matter how it struggled, the hand that was holding its wrist did not shake at all.
The woman was stunned for a moment, then slowly lowered her eyes.
——The person who had been held in her arms and shielded all the way finally woke up.
She met a pair of deep red eyes.
flame.
The first word that came to the woman's mind was fire.
It is not the fire in the stove, nor the fire in the oil lamp, nor the torch held high when praying for blessings in the New Year, but...
A prairie fire.
The fire that burns the world.
It is the divine fire that can burn away all the filth and evil in this world!
Sure enough, as expected!
The tall tower in the woman's heart was built up again, and sparks lit up again in the ashes buried in the ruins. The sparks became stronger and stronger, and finally they shot straight up into the sky, turning into a saturated heat that quickly flowed through the woman's limbs and bones.
The person lying in her arms whispered thank you to her, then slowly sat up.
Just this simple action made the people in the cage feel a majestic aura coming towards them.
Few of them had ever seen an official, and the one they had seen was only a small county magistrate. How could such a small person compare to him? Even the current emperor could not compare to him.
——The ghost is afraid.
Even though its hands were grabbed, it only dared to struggle, not attack the one who grabbed its hands. It kept shrinking back, just like them who were frightened and could only retreat instinctively.
They shrank back because they knew they could not defeat the ghost. But what about the ghost?
Why should it be afraid?
Immortal...
Is she really a fairy who came from heaven to save them?
The "immortal" bathed in the pleading and longing gazes of the people behind him. He said nothing, but just looked with interest at the ghost that he had caught and was wailing for mercy.
After a while, she lost interest.
As soon as his hand loosened and his fingers waved casually, the female corpse was pulled out into the air, and with a bang, it fell heavily into the woods.
The ghosts surrounding the cart were terrified and scrambled back, their limbs almost tangled together, before they were lost in the darker shadows in an instant.
But they did not leave.
Even though this extremely terrifying existence blew away their companions and might kill them all in the next second, they did not leave.
With a bang, six cages exploded at the same time. The black cloth broke into pieces and flew all over the sky. The wood as thick as a man's arm turned into powder and fell under the wheels.
The women and children who had been locked in cages for too long were unable to come to their senses for a long time when they were finally freed. The cold moonlight shining on them was as warm as the rising sun in June, even a little hot.
Their eyes were filled with hot tears from the heat, and their lips, which had become dry and cracked due to not having enough water to drink for a long time, were trembling. For a moment, they even forgot that there was a ghost here. They only looked up blankly at the moon and stretched out their slightly trembling hands to feel the cold wind.
After a long time, they finally began to breathe rapidly, and the fear and pain suppressed in their chests burst out. They no longer cared about anything else and opened their mouths and cried bitterly.
The younger children were infected by the crying and started crying too.
In the wilderness, cries echoed through the sky, scaring away the mourning birds in the forest and adding a strong touch to the ghost stories here.
...It's not a legend.
The deep red eyes condescended to glance at the dead silent forest. There were indeed ghosts here, and quite a few of them.
She sat on the handle of the cart with her hands folded, her slender thighs crossed, the jewel ornaments inlaid on her high-heeled boots absorbing the moonlight, and her long hair with a gradient azure color fluttered gently in the wind, like a flowing clear sky.
In the wilderness, ghosts were lurking, and she was having a lot of fun.
If these humans hadn't been crying so pitifully, she might have hummed a little tune to express her happiness.
——There are very few things that can make her unhappy, and this is obviously not one of them.
"you……"
A timid voice came to my ear.
She looked back and saw the woman who had carried her all the way.
The woman wanted to ask her something.
She blinked and said, "What do you want to ask?"
The woman mustered up her courage and asked in her familiar pious and humble tone: "Are you the immortal who came to save us?"
The woman's voice was neither low nor high, but the people around her who were crying with hoarse voices could all hear it.
They were still crying, and each of them looked over here, with the same thing in their eyes, passionate and pure.
She hugged her arms and tapped them a few times with her white jade-like fingers, seeming to be a little hesitant.
Because her original purpose was not to save people.
However...
Never mind. It's just something that comes handy.
She let go of his hand, stood up straight, and said in a dramatic tone: "I am here to save you. You can call me - Jia Jia Bai De."
Humanity burst into laughter, choked with sobs and cheered for its own rebirth, hugged each other, and vented the ecstasy that was swelling in their hearts.
Jia Jia Baide smiled, and the shadows of these humans were reflected in his deep red eyes. The smile in his eyes was shallow and without much warmth.
The woman actually asked two questions, and she only answered the first one.
Immortal?
Ah, she is not an immortal.
…
Humanity's catharsis for rebirth is still going on. Jia Jia Baide walked into the dark forest, trampling the withered weeds under her feet. Only when she passed by a few small wild flowers blooming vigorously would she quicken her pace and step over them.
After walking more than thirty steps, she stopped.
The ghosts crawled on the ground, prostrating themselves, trembling with fear.
Kneeling in the front was the female corpse.
Gagabade looked down at the ghosts kneeling at his feet, flicked his nails in boredom, and said, "You are very brave."
The ghosts crawled very low, wishing they could bury themselves in the ground.
"Tell me, what do you want to tell me by stopping here?"
Yes, those thieves are not their primary target, their purpose of showing up is to complain to this being.
The officials in the human world cannot hear their grievances, only this one can.
So they mustered up the courage to overcome their extreme fear and prostrate themselves before this being, just to be able to complain about their unheard grievances.
Gabriel doesn't really want to get involved in the affairs of the living, but the affairs of the dead... this is indeed within her jurisdiction.
She allowed their petition.
The sobbing sound of a female ghost could be heard in the dark forest.
They, like the women and children outside the forest, were abducted boys and girls, and they were abducted by the organization to which this group of thieves belonged.
This mountain was not the place where they died, and they didn't know when they woke up from the chaos. The process was so long that they could no longer remember the time.
Maybe it's one year, maybe two years, or maybe longer.
But that doesn't make sense anymore, they are already dead.
When they regained consciousness, they tried to kill those people, but they passed through their bodies.
They became ghosts, but had no way to avenge themselves.
They also tried to report to the authorities by appearing in people's dreams, hoping to have them behead those thieves who deserved to be killed.
But they failed again.
Not only did they fail, they also saw collusion between officials and bandits.
Human officials cannot save them.
Some people say that Bao Qingtian of Kaifeng Prefecture can interrogate ghosts at night and redress the grievances of wronged ghosts.
They were excited and wanted to go to Kaifeng Prefecture to find Justice Bao.
Kaifeng Prefecture was far away, but they could go even further because their bodies had been burned to ashes and thrown into wells and rivers at will by those people. There were no anchors for them in the land.
However, before they set off, they discovered that those people were harming innocent people again.
At that moment, anger overwhelmed hatred.
They followed this group of people, and along the way, they tried every possible method they could think of, but all failed without exception.
Until, in order to avoid patrolling officers and soldiers, this group of people chose to cross the mountain.
They felt the power, which gave them the ability to appear and kill people, and also made them finally aware of the terrifying presence in the car.
The instinct of survival tells them: Run! Run!
Instead of running away, they realized from extreme fear that this existence was the "official" they were looking for.
Justice Bao may not be able to redress their grievances, but this existence can certainly do so!
He can judge everything!
So they bravely blocked the convoy. Their surging hatred made them eager to kill the thieves, and their fear forced them to crawl on the ground and listen to the verdict.
Jia Jia Baide listened to their complaints in silence. When the sobbing stopped, she took two steps forward, half-knelt down in front of the female corpse, and reached out to touch the trembling waist.
It's pregnant.
To be precise, before his death.
After more than a month, even spiritual intelligence has not emerged.
As long as it is given some time, it will grow into a fierce ghost with extremely strong rage. It will lose its mind for revenge and will end up with its soul torn to pieces.
Jia Jia Bai De withdrew her hand and stood up. She hesitated for a moment and said: "I will send them all to hell, and you..."
She opened her palms and summoned a teardrop-shaped glass lamp held up by blooming lilies. The light was not dazzling, and the ghosts felt unprecedented relaxation under this light. They felt a little drowsy.
Just before they were taken into the light, they heard her say:
"The underworld will give you a fair judgment."
Even if you have killed someone and are burdened with blood debt, the underworld will not convict you for seeking revenge; this is karma.
So, sleep, and everything will be fine.
…
drop.
——The current synchronization rate between Operator Tarona and [Devil Rider] is 41.8%.
…
Tarona, who was completely awakened by the system notification, said:...
What bad news! She just woke up from the resonance with Ma Jia Ka. Can you tell her the good news?
Theseus sighed: [Miss Ta, you and the [Devil Knight] are really well-matched.]
The synchronization rate was so high that after one fusion, it was over 30%. However, after just over three days of adjustment, the synchronization rate had risen to 41.8%. The initial synchronization rates of [Blood Nun] and [Mechanical Angel] combined were not that high.
Tarona also sighed: "How can it not be high? I was invited."
She once went to a DC world more than a million years ago. While hunting down anomalies, she met the first Demon Rider of that world, a cool guy riding a mammoth.
The two of them got to know each other after a fight. He helped her intercept anomalies, and she reciprocated by helping him trick Mephitos out of hell and letting him beat him up.
In front of the campfire, he invited her to become his heir.
The demon rider was still young at the time and could not fully understand the meaning of becoming a demon rider. Tarona rejected him and left that world.
It's a pity to say that she never went to that world again. She was either on a mission or in seclusion for dozens or hundreds of years. This short-lived friendship can only be stored in her memory.
Tarona should have been more alert when fusing the vest card, but because it had never happened before, she was completely unprepared and was suddenly overwhelmed by the resonance.
Fortunately, she was lucky this time and did not land in public, and she was only unconscious for a little over three days.
There are still many good people in this world.
After hearing what she said, Theseus also remembered that as expected, he was someone who had been invited by the Demon Knight himself. It was not surprising that his synchronization rate was so high.
He considerately skipped the topic: [Sending world data now?]
Tarona shook his head and crushed the dry grass on the ground with his toes: "Don't be in a hurry. There is something in this mountain. It should be related to the abnormality."
These ghosts gained the power to appear and kill people only after entering this mountain. This world is a world of martial arts, so their mutations must be related to abnormalities.
Let's look for it first, maybe it'll be a good start.
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