Chapter 85 The truth

can only be heard, dispersed in the harsh explosions that pierce the sky, and the firelight is mixed with thick smoke.

Zhang Sheng looked at the sea of ​​fire in despair.

Flames licked the ground, smoke rose everywhere, and a pair of hands pulled him out before he was completely surrounded.

Clusters of flames chased after them, instantly scorching people's hair and eyebrows along their clothes. The eyes of the flower girls with strange colors on their faces were full of fear, and they coughed and wailed continuously.

"Help... I don't want to die..."

The child who fell to the ground not far away looked at him with scarlet eyes and tears, and dug his burnt black palms into the ground with difficulty: "... Sir, we are forced , I didn't set the fire..."

Eager to save people, Zhang Sheng couldn't care so much and tried his best to shake off the restraints behind him.

The talisman can indeed summon water to extinguish the fire, but now he can't tell whether the ghost realm he is in is a reappearance of the scene a hundred years ago, or a disaster experienced again.

"Where are you?" Zhang Sheng roared aimlessly.

Only a few writings were left on the talisman paper that was burned by the fire. The brushstrokes on it were vigorous and powerful. They were familiar but also unfamiliar to him. The words used in them were not like what modern people would say.

"He is about to be sealed by me, do you still count on him? Ha..." Ma Li sat on the giant python, overlooking the village that was burned into red, and said in a sinister tone, "If it weren't for Ni Shisan How could bringing the power of the evil god here cause such a strange phenomenon?"

Facing

the man's clueless words, Zhang Sheng stiffened and looked around for a source of water that could relieve the fire. At the same time, he tried to stabilize his horse. Li's emotions, try to follow his words.

"It was the female ghost who hid in this village in panic before. I knew she was very resentful, so I set up a barrier in advance. Now it doesn't work?"

Ma Li chuckled and said, "Master relies on this evil spirit every time he casts a spell. "How do you know he won't do anything secretly?"

Zhang Sheng was confused. He was entrusted with this last case. When he talked about it with Ni Shisan, he was rejected. She disliked him for meddling in other people's own affairs, yet he had to spend his mana to protect an entire village for an escaped female ghost.

At that time, he was worried that the formation was not strong enough, so he let the Thirteen Inverse Talisman fall on Ci Ge, which calmed his mind and prevented the female ghost from harming the lives of innocent people before they rushed to judge the evil.

"You mean there's something wrong with that talisman?"

"Otherwise?" Ma Li waved his hand and completely cleared the talisman paper, and approached Zhang Sheng through the smoke. "Back then, he arrived in this village before you just to get rid of Ci Ge and destroy all the talismans. Evidence of his own evil deeds. How could a kind-hearted ghost spread his grievances on innocent people after being questioned and discussed by the villagers?"

Ma Li looked at Zhang Sheng's face with confusion, and seemed to be really concerned about what happened in the nameless village. Unaware of the fire, he recounted the situation unscrupulously.

"Cige is the owner of this ghost realm. She was first forced into a ghost marriage by the Fan family, and then was cruelly stuffed into a coffin when she was still alive. She was drifting with the flood. Fortunately, the children of the Fan family rescued her, but she also So he died in the flood."

Zhang Sheng remembered this deeply and did not respond.

"But if she survives, the harm to the woman will be even greater. The fear and hatred of being imprisoned in a claustrophobic coffin when she is dying is difficult to dispel. This was influenced by Fan Yue's act of risking his life to save her. It no longer threatens the world, but is affected by your supreme The magic weapon is used! -"

Zhang Sheng almost forgot that Ni Shisan had always hidden his identity and stayed with him.

At that time, his description of the case was too general. Because of his trust in Ni Shisan, he let the magic weapon with the power of teleportation go to track it first. He wondered at the time why someone who had been completely uninterested in the matter a few days ago hurriedly chased the female ghost out after hearing that she was missing.

By the time he arrived, it was too late to see the fire completely extinguished and the burned, unrecognizable corpses lying on the ground.

"It's just a flash flood and a fire. The formation I set up should be effective, but he said that the ghost's evil spirit has intensified and it is no longer possible to clean it up..."

"Master, do you believe such a poor excuse?" "Ma Li waved his robe sleeves, diverted the river water around the village to the center of the sea of ​​fire, and vowed, "I only know that the person who deceived you time and time again must have other motives. If you didn't trust him at that time, you might have no name. The villagers in the village will not die in vain."

Seeing Ma Li chattering endlessly and still having a conscience to put out the fire, Zhang Sheng felt that this was effective.

No matter what, the villagers of Wuming Village are not at fault. They do not want to obey the bad habits of child brides or ghost marriages, but a large source of their income depends on transporting flower girls to the city.

Every family, mainly prominent local figures, will choose flower girls from unknown villages. These children are familiar with etiquette, understand the rules, and have a clean appearance. They can be called carefully cultivated wedding decorations.

When the river poured into the low-lying flat land from west to east, Zhang Sheng rolled his eyes. After carefully looking at the distribution of the village, he felt that it was different from the nameless village he visited at that time.

In the eight-horizontal and eight-vertical formation, the center of the magic power should be in the thatched cottage where Cige was hiding. When the smoke dissipated, he keenly felt that the formation had changed, as if he was sitting under the giant python.

Zhang Sheng would not misremember his formation. He had set up the formation at the place where the evil spirit was strongest. But now he couldn't see Cige's whereabouts, and he only felt that the man around him was the source of his loss of mana.

If there was a fire, it couldn't be here.

The flash flood swept through the city, and the downstream path was the nameless village. Cige's resentment was her hatred of the flood, and the continuous rain on the day of the wedding. She wanted to use fire to burn it all...

those funerals The flower girls and hundreds of underage children in the sea of ​​​​fire watched helplessly as their relatives were affected. How could that kind of resentment be simply extinguished and dissipated?

There is only one explanation that makes sense. The village that Cige fled to was not an unknown village, and the scene just now did not really happen, but was a symbol.

From that moment, the feeling of debt in Zhang Sheng's heart disappeared, but a new wave came...

He suddenly thought of why Ni Shisan rushed so fast. Maybe he discovered Ci Ge's next goal first. Wuming Village, so he used a forged talisman to drive Cige into the barrier he set.

Zhang Sheng just had more experience than others and could understand some truths, but he couldn't predict everything.

He discovered that Cige was escaping downstream of the flood, and the nearest inhabited place was Wuming Village, so he could only do this as quickly as possible by setting up a formation in advance.

But he only regarded Cige as an ordinary evil spirit, and did not expect that she had the ability to break the formation. Perhaps the formation set up by Zhang Sheng at that time was simply invincible compared with the power of the evil god attached to Cige.

He only saw the scene where Ni Shisan disinfected Cige, but he didn't ask about the reason.

"She can't be saved. I'm helping you."

...

"Zhang Sheng! Are you going to fight me now? Are you going to fight me with your extremely fragile magical weapon that you borrowed from someone else?"

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"You don't believe me. You never If you don’t believe me…”

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Zhang Sheng sighed.

Now he couldn't blame Ni Shisan for not being submissive. If he could have spoken to him properly without being sarcastic, maybe he would have listened.

"Yu Duo!! I've tolerated you for a long time! -"

Ren Zhinan's voice suddenly sounded.

Zhang Sheng turned around in shock and saw two men with their faces covered in dirt and fighting fiercely rolling out of the haystack.

Yu Duo had a bright look on his face. Even after being scolded, he still happily rushed over: "Brother Ren, aren't you single too... I haven't dated a girlfriend yet. You think it's better to choose a date than to hit it. Otherwise, just go with it." Me."

Zhang Sheng was so shocked that he almost bit the tip of his tongue. He had never seen such a shameless side of Yu Duo. His expression was abnormal, and he must have been cursed by something.

Ren Zhinan suddenly came back to his senses and saw Zhang Sheng being pulled by a strange man. He looked anxiously: "Please wake up! Otherwise I will knock you out with a palm... Open your eyes and see. Do you know that man?" "

He twisted Yu Duo's head and turned to Ma Li. Yu Duo took a deep breath, squinted his eyes, and shook his head: "I don't know him. Who would know the guy riding the earth spirit... Oh no, Brother Ren, you are, Ren Brother, Brother Ren... I like you more and more!"

"Pa! -"

Zhang Sheng turned his head, not wanting to look directly at the extra five fingerprints on Yu Duo's face.

Being slapped back to consciousness, Yu Duo fell to the ground and blinked slowly.

"...I, where am I?"

Ren Zhinan covered his face and said, "You and I mistakenly entered the ghost realm from halfway up the mountain. What we have to do now is to take your boss and Zhang Sheng back! Are you awake?!"

" Wake up, wake up."

Yu Duo stood up and remembered the words that lingered on his lips before being slapped. He looked at Ma Li again, pointed at him and said, "What, I've seen him before!" Ah, I saw it when I was on Yin Yang Street, but I just don’t know what it’s called..."

Ren Zhinan said "Thank you for waking up" with a full face. He looked at Ma Li and immediately recognized that the mount was not the so-called ground horse at all. Spirits, but evil spirits exuding a strong evil spirit, can only come from the underworld.

Ren Zhinan: "Why did you appear in the Ghost Realm? Since you are Zhang Sheng's apprentice, why have I never heard him talk about you..."

The word "never" simply ran over Ma Li's head, visible to the naked eye. , the man's face was ashen, and he no longer had the elegant temperament he had just now.

"Because he has lost his memory! He died tragically in his previous life and was harmed by evil things. Of course he can't remember me..."

Really?

Ren Zhinan couldn't see Ni Shisan's whereabouts, but he could guess what happened here.

He then represented the Crime Department, and he shouldn't have put in a good word for Ni Shisan, but from the stiffness of Zhang Sheng's body, it could be seen that there must be something wrong with this apprentice who appeared.

"Oh, but Zhang Sheng still remembers Cui Yu, but he doesn't remember you, or he doesn't want to recognize you. Why?"

Ma Li narrowed his eyes and made a fighting gesture.

He gritted his teeth and said, "You and that evil thing are also together. Don't try to take away my master today."

"Lu Yao." Zhang Sheng's voice was deep, and he passed by Ren Zhinan, his white clothes fluttering and bringing up dust.

The dark fire and mysterious light appeared from unknown time.

But there was another compass in his hand, which was the first appearance of Ni Shisan when he fell into the world.

"I have never forgotten you, but today, I don't want to recognize you anymore."