Chapter 607 Welcoming the God of Joy
"The God of Joy is passing through, strangers stay away..."
Along with the sound of a clear bell, a man's deep voice suddenly rang out, echoing in the silent night with a hint of ethereal flavor.
After hearing this voice, Mr. Wu and I almost subconsciously looked at each other, and we both saw a look of astonishment in each other's eyes.
"The person who came turned out to be a corpse-driving person?" I was shocked.
I have also seen corpse-driving people. Back in our village, my master's best friend Xiang Lao San was a corpse-driving person.
However, although Xiang Lao San is a corpse chaser, he never chases corpses to walk. From what I just heard, this corpse chaser is obviously walking!
"In this era, there are still corpse chasers walking?" I was shocked. Mr. Wu also frowned and whispered: "This corpse chaser may be the living map of the Hundred Thousand Mountains in Miaojiang mentioned by Senior Aguo. However, a corpse chaser is guiding us..."
At this point, Mr. Wu frowned and stopped talking.
Although Mr. Wu didn't say the next words, I already understood what he meant.
When the corpse chaser is walking, he often encounters all kinds of strange things. If he is not careful, he may be frightened and eventually lose his luck.
The so-called "losing his luck" means that the God of Joy is frightened by other living people, causing the God of Joy to steal the corpse. "Losing his luck" means that the God of Joy escapes the control of the corpse chaser and turns into a zombie. The reason why
we went into the mountains this time is to avoid some unnecessary troubles on the way. But if a walking corpse chaser is our guide, wouldn't it be a waste of trouble for ourselves?
"Captain Wu, Captain Zhang, what are you two talking about?" Nangong Xiayu suddenly spoke up, looking at me and Wu Sheng with a puzzled look on his face and asked, "What corpse-driving craftsman? Where is he? Why can't I see anything?"
Hearing this, I frowned and looked at Nangong Xiayu, and then looked at Xiao Li and Xiao Fan.
Xiao Li and Xiao Fan also had a solemn look on their faces. Obviously, they also heard the sound of the corpse-driving craftsman and the sound of bells.
"Nangong Xiayu... can't hear the sound of bells? Could it be that he is not a cultivator?" I was puzzled. Since he can become a field commissioner of Wu Shushan Reserve, he can't be a cultivator, right?
However, if he is a cultivator, with the Taoism of a field commissioner, his five senses must be very sharp, and it is impossible for him not to hear the bells and shouts of the corpse-driving craftsman.
Not only me, but also Wu Sheng, Xiao Li and Xiao Fan all looked at Nangong Xiayu, especially Xiao Li, who couldn't help asking: "You didn't hear anything?"
"No." Nangong Xiayu shook his head and asked: "You... heard anything?"
Xiao Li didn't say anything, just turned his head and looked at Wu Sheng.
"The corpse chaser should be very close to here, don't make a fuss, just wait and see." After Wu Sheng finished speaking, he sat back on the ground. Seeing this, I sat down again, and almost the moment I sat down, the crisp bell sounded again.
"Ding-ling-ling..."
The sound of the bells was very clear, just like wind chimes. If it was during the day, or in another environment, this clear sound would even make people feel very comfortable.
But at this moment, at this time and place, it would only make people feel a little weird.
"The God of Joy is passing through, strangers stay away..."
The man's deep voice sounded again. This time, the sound was very close to here, even a normal person should be able to hear it.
"I heard it too, it was... a bell!" Nangong Xiayu suddenly cried out in surprise, and Xiaofan, who was standing beside him, covered his mouth and said in a low voice, "Shut up, if you disturb the God of Joy, be careful that the God of Joy will eat you."
"Ah!" Nangong Xiayu was frightened and trembled all over, then his eyes widened and he kept shaking his head.
After seeing this scene, I couldn't help but laugh secretly. Xiaofan was obviously a little annoyed with Nangong Xiayu, so he said that to scare him.
However, in fact, Xiaofan was not completely scaring Nangong Xiayu.
There are many rules to follow when chasing corpses, and Nangong Xiayu's personality is too unreliable. If the God of Joy enters the guest inn, Nangong Xiayu will be in trouble if he accidentally scares the God of Joy.
That's why Xiao Fan scared him in advance so that he wouldn't make so much noise.
"Shh, here they come." Wu Sheng suddenly made a gesture to silence him, and almost as soon as Wu Sheng finished speaking, the bell sound really disappeared, replaced by a footstep and a "bang bang bang" sound.
"What's that bang bang bang sound?" Nangong Xiayu stared at the wooden door with wide eyes, her eyes full of fear.
"Shut up!" Xiao Li was anxious and glared at Nangong Xiayu fiercely. Nangong Xiayu was frightened and shrank her neck, and dared not say a word anymore.
At this moment, the heavy footsteps sounded in front of the door. Obviously, the corpse-driving craftsman had already arrived at the door of the inn with the corpse.
We all stared at the wooden door nervously, not even daring to breathe. Even Mr. Wu had a solemn look in his eyes.
The scene of the corpse-driving, but the corpse-driving walking, has not appeared for decades. This kind of scene usually exists in the mouths of the older generation of practitioners. None of us have seen it with our own eyes. If we say we are not nervous, it is absolutely false.
"Dong dong dong dong dong..." A
dull knock on the door suddenly sounded. The knock was low and powerful, no more, no less, exactly six times.
Normal people knock on the door three times in a row. The reason for this is that the first knock is to respect the gods, the second knock is to scare away the ghosts, and the third knock is to call people.
To put it bluntly, they are afraid that the house has been empty for a long time and no one has lived in it, and something dirty has entered the house.
However, the master who drives away the dead has an unwritten rule when knocking on the door of the God of Joy. That is, he knocks on the door six times, three of which are the same as ordinary people, to respect the gods, scare away the ghosts, and call people.
As for the other three knocks, the meaning is a bit mysterious. Those three knocks are not for the living people in the inn to hear, but for the God of Joy who has already settled in the God of Joy's inn to hear. It means that another God of Joy has arrived and stayed for one night to make up for the disturbance.
Of course, these are all mysterious superstitious legends. Ordinary people can just laugh them off as fun, but for practitioners and corpse chasers, these are taboos passed down from ancient times to the present day and cannot be broken. There
was a knock on the door, and then a man's deep voice sounded: "The sky does not take it, the earth does not keep it, it comes from the east and goes to the west and returns to the east. Today I will borrow your store and put the gold bricks in your cabinet."
I couldn't help swallowing my saliva when I heard this.
Because I had seen this sentence in the ancient book that recorded the corpse-driving walking foot.
This sentence is the incision of the walking foot master when he came to the God of Joy Inn, which is also a code word.
It means that the walking foot master has landed here and wants to settle here. Please open the door quickly to welcome the God of Joy!