Tianwei Chapter 225: Strange Things (3)
Yang Zongxu walked in and shouted directly: "Hey, Mrs. Zhang, you are still crying. Get up, crying again will not bring it back."
The woman he called Mrs. Zhang was squatting on the ground, wiping her tears. She looked to be about 40 years old, slightly fat , wearing a yellow flowered jacket with red flowers on top and grey trousers underneath. She looked like an ordinary rural woman. Such clothing is not rare nowadays, and it is quite common in remote areas.
And where Mrs. Zhang was squatting, only about ten centimeters away from her, a gray mixed-hair native dog was lying quietly. Its tongue was hanging out and it was tilted to one side. Its eyes were now lifeless, its four hooves were curled up, and its whole body exuded a cold breath.
"Okay, I heard you shouting this morning, why are you still crying now? Go wash your face, I'll take a look." Yang Zongxu said, squatting down and fiddling with the dog's ears.
Mrs. Zhang choked up for a while, but she didn't leave. She watched him stretch out his hand to move the dog's head back and forth. At this time, a middle-aged man came out of the room. He looked honest. He held a teacup in his hand and handed it over, saying: "Why are you here, Brother Yang? Come, it's cold, have a drink of water."
It's really chilly this season. When we left Yuanling, it was just summer, but when we left Kunlun, winter was almost over.
Yang Zongxu took the cup, not minding that it was old and worn out. He took a sip, then held the cup and asked: When did he die?
When asked this question, Mrs. Zhang burst into tears again. The middle-aged man looked unhappy and grabbed her arm and pulled her up: "Go back to the house, cry, cry, cry, you just know how to cry!"
Okay, okay, he is not an outsider. Yang Zongxu waved his hand and asked again: When did he die?
It might have been at night, I couldn’t figure it out, but when I woke up the next morning, it looked like this, the middle-aged man replied.
Oh... Yang Zongxu responded, then fumbled in his pocket and took out a few pieces of talisman paper. He shook his hand, and the talisman paper ignited without fire. This move surprised me, but the couple next to me were not very surprised.
Yang Zongxu threw the talisman paper at the dog with one hand, and took out the knife with the other hand. He slid it casually in the air a few times, then chopped it off at the dog's head, shouting: Kill!
However, he did not really chop off the dog's head, but stopped halfway. After several burning talismans touched the dog's hair, they burned quietly. But surprisingly, the hair was not ignited, as if there was something between the fire burning on it and it.
Yang Zongxu took back the knife, grabbed a few pieces of talisman paper with one hand, and rubbed them in his palm. When he opened his palm again, not even the dust was gone. It was like a magic trick, and the people watching were stunned.
All right, bury it when you have time. Yang Zongxu stood up and handed the cup back.
No, nothing will happen, right? There have been a lot of incidents here recently...
It's nothing serious. Besides, why did I come here? It was my old man who saw it. Yang Zongxu waved his hand and interrupted the other party's question.
That’s good, that’s good! The middle-aged man was delighted and nodded repeatedly: “Now that your father knows about this, we don’t have to worry anymore.”
Yang Zongxu hummed , and turned to lead me out the door. I looked back at the dead dog on the ground, and after leaving the house, I whispered: What did you find out?
It's a bit troublesome. Yang Zongxu showed a thoughtful expression on his face and said: It's a bit like the loss of the soul, oh, to put it simply, the soul is gone. But I pinched it a few times just now, and the flesh and blood inside shrunk, as if the essence was sucked away.
Sucked away? Could it be a vampire? This thought suddenly popped up in my mind, but I immediately ruled it out. Let's not talk about whether there are vampires. Even if there are, how dare it come here? It must be an old man who has eaten arsenic and is tired of living!
It's similar to what I saw before. It seems we have to wait until night to find out what's going on, Yang Zongxu said.
I know nothing about any of this, I just came out to join in the fun, so naturally I won't say much.
After returning, he was inevitably scolded by the old man from Yuanling for taking advantage of the situation, but Yang Zongxu was used to it. He smiled and brought the wine over, and the scene immediately became harmonious.
It was not until the evening that Yang Zongxu called me out. I left the room and looked outside. It was already completely dark.
In the yard, old man Yuanling was still talking to the old master. When he saw us leave, he didn't even raise his head.
Where are we going? Seeing him turn right as soon as he got out of the door, as if he already knew the destination, I couldn't help but ask curiously.
Now all the living animals in the county, whether pigs, ducks, cattle, sheep, geese or anything else, have been gathered together and isolated. If there really is something weird, it will definitely go there at night, and we just have to wait for it, Yang Zongxu said.
We walked along the street and went out of the county town. There were large hills in front of us. We could faintly hear dogs barking and the sounds of cattle and sheep moving around.
There were human figures hidden there. They were people sent by the city to work with the local police station to prevent these living creatures from being stolen.
Yang Zongxu led me over and stopped when we were about a hundred meters away. Then he took out some cloth and spread it on the ground, saying: Sit down and have a rest.
I nodded and sat next to him. Yang Zongxu looked at me, as if he was curious: Most people would want to avoid such things because they think it is troublesome. Why are you willing to come out?
I said: I'm bored, I have nothing to do anyway. And...haha, it's nothing, I just want to see something new.
Yang Zongxu said "oh" and said nothing more. We sat behind a small hill for a long time. I was about to fall asleep when Yang Zongxu suddenly poked me.
How……
I only said one word, and he tapped my arm. I immediately reacted and shut my mouth tightly. Then, I turned my head quietly and looked towards the livestock isolation area.
A small figure appeared not far away, running forward at an extremely fast speed, his movements were incredibly agile. If it weren't for the obvious human shape, I would have thought he was a monster.
I turned around and heard Yang Zongxu say in a low voice: Keep watching.
I nodded and turned my head back, only to see that the little figure had already rushed into the herd of livestock. What was surprising was that there were at least hundreds of livestock and poultry in the entire quarantine area, but at this time, no sound was made.
And a few minutes later, I heard a faint plop, as if something had fallen to the ground.
At this moment, Yang Zongxu rushed out from beside me like an arrow from a bow. When I saw him move, I couldn't sit still any longer, so I quickly got up and followed him.
The noise we made was quite loud, and a police officer on guard immediately shouted: Who are you!
In the isolation area, a small figure suddenly jumped out, and when he saw us, he immediately turned around and ran into the forest.
Without saying a word, Yang Zongxu took out a few talismans from his pocket, lit them up with his hands, and then waved the knife with one hand and muttered some meaningless words.
Watching him dancing like a god, I wanted to laugh, but at the same time, I felt that things were getting even weirder.
The talisman papers burned up in mid-air, and the little figure in the distance suddenly fell to the ground with a plop. Yang Zongxu stopped twisting his body and rushed forward quickly. While running, he shouted to the policemen: It's me, all of you go back!
The policemen recognized his voice and without hesitation, they turned and ran towards the makeshift house that had just been built a few days ago. As I ran, I sighed at the prestige of the Yang family here.
At this time, several streams of green smoke rose from the ground, and they could be seen clearly even from a distance in the dark night. The small figure that was originally crawling on the ground gradually merged into the ground, and completely disappeared before Yang Zongxu arrived.
When we ran there, we could only see the empty ground. Yang Zongxu walked forward a few steps and walked around the place where the abnormality appeared, muttering to himself as he walked: It's really weird, what is this thing?
What's wrong? I asked.
It seems that there are more than one of those ghost things. Yang Zongxu snorted and said: But next time I see them, I must catch them. It's a pity that I haven't fully learned Lao Si's method, otherwise I can track them down.
I wanted to use Taoism to help him find it, but after thinking about it, it seemed too embarrassing. Yang Zongxu was a good person, so it was better not to do anything that would embarrass him.
So we returned home that night with nothing, but it was good news that something strange was indeed there. At least we had a clue.
In the following days, we came to the livestock isolation area every night, but we only saw that thing again on the third day. But this time, it had learned its lesson and took the livestock away directly from the isolation area. When we saw the green smoke rising and dissipating, there was nothing to be found.
Yang Zongxu was furious. But he specifically told me not to tell the old man in Yuanling about this, saying that he must handle it himself. It was obvious that he wanted to save face for himself. This is human nature. Who doesn't want to show off in front of their parents?
However, I was not in the mood to care about this because the Taoist priest still hadn't returned by the fourth day.
Even the beautiful girl couldn't help but ask me where the Taoist priest had gone, and I could only say I didn't know.
Just when I was wondering whether I should use Taoist magic, Yang Zongxu suddenly knocked on the door and shouted: Tianyou, someone is looking for you.
Oh? Who is it? I walked over curiously. I don’t know anyone in Yuanling, who could come here to see me?
When I opened the door, I was surprised to find that the man standing outside was a man I didn't know well. He had a feminine face, triangular eyes, and a hooked nose. He looked like a bad guy. But this man's name was well-known in the spiritual practice circle.
The current head of the Walking Corpse Clan, Yuwen Ying!
"You, why are you here?" I asked in confusion.
Yuwen Ying looked around the room, nodded to the beautiful girl who came over curiously, and then said: Wei Qingcang is missing.
ah?
Before I could digest this news, Yuwen Ying opened his mouth and said: Gamu thought it was the secret corpse vein's doing, so he went to argue, but one of his hands was broken and he was imprisoned in the mountains.
My heart sank gradually, and I had a vague sense of foreboding.
Yu Wenying looked a little unhappy, and said: I came to deliver the news a few days ago, the master has gone, but...
What happened to him? The little beauty suddenly pushed me aside and rushed out of the house.
Yuwen Ying smiled bitterly and said: There just happened to be a fully formed green ghost corpse near the secret corpse vein, and the master didn't check it for the time being, so...
You! The little beauty pointed at her nose and rushed forward.
I hurriedly stopped him, but heard Yuwen Ying say: "But recently a purple talisman corpse was unearthed, and Zhong Jiutian took people there. The secret corpse vein has always been incompatible with our three veins, so naturally we will not let him take the purple talisman corpse away. So there are not many people guarding it now, you see...
I held the little beauty in my arms to prevent her from slapping Yu Wenying in the face, but now, I want to do it myself. No wonder the old Taoist refused to tell me what he was doing and didn't come back for several days in a row. He actually went to take care of that shit!
