hell in disguise

After listening to the old man's narration, his ears were filled with pleas from the villagers, and Tan Yangzi hesitated thousands of times in his heart.But in the end, he still sighed and said, "Forget it, where is the gluttonous treasure chest?"

"Master!" Yan Fei grabbed Tan Yangzi and pulled him out of the crowd.Seeing Yan Fei's expression, the villagers were inexplicably afraid to follow, and stood there anxiously.

"Master! Are you crazy? Qinghong Wuchang sent by Fengdu will be responsible for ghost hunting, and this gluttonous treasure box doesn't sound like an ordinary thing. What if it is a magic weapon from heaven? You and I managed to escape Come out, you are throwing yourself into a trap!"

"If it's a trap set for you and me, you and I can't stand by." Tan Yangzi frowned, "I don't like to involve irrelevant people."

"Once the Heavenly Court or the Immortal Medicine Sect notice our presence, it will be difficult to get rid of them!"

Tan Yangzi raised a hand and firmly pressed Yan Fei's shoulder, "Yan Fei, do you still remember, when you begged me to stay more than ten years ago, I stayed."

Yan Fei was startled.

Tan Yangzi patted him on the shoulder reassuringly, his eyes were as calm as the deep sea, "If there is something wrong, as long as you and I are together, there will always be a solution. Don't be afraid."

For a moment, Yan Fei, who raised his head slightly and looked up at Tan Yangzi, stared at the stern face that was half dyed by the dense sunset glow, and suddenly felt ashamed.In vain, he used to be the sixth god with the six realms of self-proclaimed benevolence, but he ignored the fate of others and could watch hundreds of lives in the village with a cold eye if he made up a lie that endangered him a little.He has always been a selfish god, and those so-called sacredness and ideals are nothing but grand decorations.

But the evil ghost in front of him, who has experienced the suffering of reincarnation and seen all the evils in the world, can still retain his kindness, even though he looks cold and alienated, even if he likes to describe himself as ruthless and cruel.

Probably this is why I was attracted to him, not just because of the influence of Shiva Mara...

Seeing that Yan Fei stopped talking, he seemed to be moved.Tan Yangzi showed a faint smile, squeezed his hand lightly, then turned and walked towards the helpless and terrified crowd in the distance.

Since it was getting late, no one dared to take them into the forest to dig the treasure chest, so Tan Yangzi decided to leave early the next morning.The two of them were arranged in the empty house of the village chief's house. Since they could not leave the village to go hunting, there was not much food left, and all they could entertain them was wild vegetable porridge and a few corn buns.Tan Yangzi and Yan Fei sat on the kang, bathing in the silver moonlight from the window to fill their stomachs.Yan Fei raised his head and met Tan Yangzi's eyes, who gave him a faint smile.

If he could keep that smile, he would do anything.Yan Fei thought.

But is there still time?How long can he hide from Master?

When will it be discovered?Under what circumstances will it be discovered?He imagined it over and over again these days, no matter how he thought about it, he felt a dull pain in his heart.He has never been able to deceive the master, even if he can deceive him for a while, it cannot be for a long time.

Sooner or later he will have to face his worst fear - that he will lose his master.

There is no way to make up for the loss...

Deep sadness filled his eyes, he quickly lowered his head and pretended to be drinking porridge to hide his emotions.

"Yan Fei, do you really have nothing to tell me?" Tan Yangzi asked suddenly.

Yan Fei's heart missed a beat, "No? What's wrong?"

Tan Yangzi stared at his expression seriously, as if he wanted to see all the truth from his eyes.Yan Fei felt that he had been completely seen through.

"Yan Fei, I understand you. You have something to hide from me, I know." Tan Yangzi's tone did not have any meaning of anger and persecution, but with a hint of comfort, and he said in a persuasive way, "In the realm of nothingness, I Did something happen after you fell into a coma?"

Yan Fei smiled and said, "A lot of things happened after you fell into a coma. Which one are you referring to?"

"...the one you didn't tell me."

"Let me think about it..." Yan Fei rubbed his chin with his thumb, pretending to be thinking seriously, "Probably...I didn't tell you about the embarrassing thing that I hugged you and cried bitterly? "

Tan Yangzi rolled his eyes, knowing that this brat was playing sloppy with him again.

Forget it...Let's talk about it when he is willing to say it.

But at this moment, Yan Fei suddenly raised his head and looked out the window.The forest in the distance lurks silently, and the moonlight cannot penetrate the darkness cast by the luxuriant branches and leaves.

He had a sick feeling, a gut feeling that something filthy was approaching.

At the same time, Tan Yangzi also felt something, he stretched out his hand to open the window further, narrowed his eyes and stared carefully at the darkness among the trees.

The illusion caused by light and shadow makes people feel that there is something close to a human shape in the darkness but not very human-like standing quietly, but if you look closely, it seems to be nothing.Tan Yangzi felt that the scales on the back of his ghost body were shaking, as if to warn him of something.

"You feel it too?" Tan Yangzi asked.

"Well, there's something in the woods."

"It's a pity that there is no corpse candle on him." Tan Yangzi stood up, "Let's go and see what it is."

Yan Fei flicked his red sleeves, and the Du'er Umbrella appeared in his hand. The soul-inducing bell was tied to the umbrella handle, which made a faint sound.The two went out of the house, only to see that the door of the village chief's main house was opened a crack, and the old man was peeping out in horror.Seeing them, he hurriedly said, "Master Taoist! Those things are coming to arrest people again!"

Tan Yangzi nodded and said, "Close the door and leave the rest to us."

"Good! Good!" With a bang, the village chief closed the door firmly. '

In the stillness of the night, not even the cries of owls and borers could be heard.The entire forest surrounding them was a bottomless swamp filled with the smell of death and decay, completely different from the forest where they had lived for more than a month not too far away.Tan Yangzi had a feeling that this forest seemed to be polluted by some invisible force.

There is no one in the village, only a thin mist hovering around, the road is narrow and complicated, undulating along the mountain like a cobweb, and there are shadows everywhere that cannot be seen clearly.After making a general inspection, Tan Yangzi raised his head and sniffed. A faint stench permeated the air. He looked around, and suddenly jumped up, jumped onto the roof of the tallest house in the village, and looked around. With undulating trees like waves.Suddenly, his eyes fell on the southwest direction. At the edge of the village, something seemed to be crawling over the ground at high speed.

"Over there!" After Tan Yangzi finished speaking, he jumped onto the other roof first, and rushed over after a few ups and downs.On the other hand, Yan Fei opened the Du'er umbrella wildly, and the umbrella took him up in the wind, chasing after Tan Yangzi's figure.He has been tangled in his heart. If he opens his heavenly eyes, he should be able to see through what is trapping the village easily. But if he does this, will Tan Yangzi notice any abnormalities?

At least wait until Tan Yangzi is not around him to do so...

Tan Yangzi landed on a thatched roof, but lost the trace of the thing.At this time, Yan Fei landed on the fence of the courtyard, and shouted to Tan Yangzi, "Master, this way!"

Tan Yangzi moved in response to the sound, rushed into the courtyard, and indeed heard a scream from inside.He said to Yan Fei, "Hurry up and draw the trapped magic circle, I'll go in first." After saying that, he kicked open the door and disappeared into the darkness behind the door.

Seeing him go in, Yan Fei knew that he wasn't looking at him.His skin began to emit a cold light that was whiter than moonlight. On his smooth forehead, a bright light suddenly appeared, and gradually opened to both sides, revealing a gilded illusion eye.Suddenly, those eyes saw some kind of black misty insight like a spider web hanging over the village, like a bowl upside down over the village.And in the forest, there is a black "sky pillar", which seems to be the center of these invisible and sinister nets, stretching out mycelium-like slender but ubiquitous cilia in all directions.

He originally thought that the Gluttonous Treasure Chest was some kind of sacred object in the heavenly court, but now it seems that it should not be.Such a pure evil breath is obviously only available in hell.

At the same time he felt a deep hunger.An unbearable hunger that overwhelmed all other senses and made him want to eat, lots and lots of living things.He knew that this hunger was not his own, but from the ubiquitous black stuff that pervaded the village.

However, among the endless evil, there is no ghost spirit alone.

There are no ghosts in this village.

Yan Fei closed his eyes and chased into the room, only to see Tan Yangzi grabbing a human-shaped thing by the throat with one hand, and imprisoning it firmly against the wall with all his strength.And curled up on the bed a mother and daughter trembling in shock.

The "thing" held by Tan Yangzi was covered in festering blisters, and one leg seemed to have been eaten by something, leaving only rotten skin and flesh sticking to the blackened bones.And that face has long been distorted and deformed, especially the mouth, which is so big that it even tore the entire jaw. It kept opening and closing in the air, and the teeth clicked together to make a clicking sound.There was a low, goosebump-inducing throaty sound from the black hole, like a moan, or an angry roar.

It appeared to be a corpse, the corpse of a woman.It's just that she is still moving, still making sounds.There was no trace of life in those eyes, which were covered with a hollow white membrane like that of a dead person.

"Dead Transformation..." Yan Fei murmured.

"Yan Fei! Find a rope!" Tan Yangzi had already pasted an exorcism charm on her forehead, but it was of no use at all.When he heard Yan Fei say that it was a corpse change, he wondered if it might be some kind of extremely rare...but not impossible situation-the life soul left the body, but the sky soul and earth soul were still in the body.

Contrary to Shui Langjun's situation before, it is somewhat similar to Yan Fei's situation.This is why Tan Yangzi was very surprised at first why Yan Fei was still like a normal human being without a life soul.

The two of them worked together to bind the powerful female corpse heavily, but even so she was still moaning and struggling on the ground, opening her mouth constantly, as if she wanted to bite something.In order not to keep the mother and daughter from being frightened, they dragged the wriggling female corpse into the woodshed, and asked the mother to call the village chief.

After all this tossing, Tan Yangzi felt like he was sweating.He hadn't seen such a strong living corpse for a long, long time.

He raised his head, only to see Yan Fei looking at the horrifying female living corpse with strange eyes.

"what happened?"

Yan Fei chuckled, and asked in a tone as if he saw something very interesting, "Am I essentially the same as her?"

"Don't talk nonsense!" Tan Yangzi scolded him, but felt a heavy heart for some reason.

Yan Fei, who has no soul...

He still didn't know what method Ashyun used to preserve Bo Xun's heavenly soul and earthly soul in a body without life soul, so that Yan Fei would not turn into these horrible unconscious living corpses.What if it was a time-limited spell?In case this kind of spell disappears one day, then Yan Fei will become...

He shivered and didn't want to continue thinking about it.

Yan Fei probably would rather die than become like this...

And all of this is for myself...

"Master?" Yan Fei seemed to have been calling him just now, but Tan Yangzi, who was immersed in his own thoughts, realized at this moment, "What?"

"If this is really a living corpse, we just need to find a way to release her heavenly soul and earthly soul, right?"

"Well, the problem is, she is already dead. But her heavenly soul and earthly soul have not disappeared for some reason." Tan Yangzi said, "Maybe it has something to do with that gluttonous treasure box. Go dig out the box tomorrow, maybe there will be a solution Method."

"Gaotie... always hungry, always wanting to eat." Yan Fei squatted down, and put his fingers close to the female corpse, only to see that she suddenly seemed to be crazy, opening and closing the torn jaw at an extremely fast speed , trying to bite Yan Fei's finger, "There is no trace of black and white impermanence in this village, where are the souls of those who died?"

Tan Yangzi frowned.

"The soul of fate who disappeared inexplicably, the person full of resentment who was killed by the loved one...does this sound familiar?" Yan Fei said.

Tan Yangzi's heart sank gradually, "You mean, this is heaven's handwriting again?"

"I'll know when I see the so-called treasure box tomorrow." Yan Fei raised the corners of his mouth and smiled sarcasticly, but his eyes were very cold. Whether it can be used to refine baby Gu or not is very important, maybe because he thinks that as long as the life soul is collected enough and fast enough, it will be useful. Probably, he doesn't have much time."