Ling Hu is looking for the source of the ringtone. She noticed the sound from a long distance away, but she didn't expect it to get closer and closer and stop behind her. She immediately saw the woman's lace-up embroidered shoes, which were lotus leaf green and had small golden bells hanging on both sides. This was the source of the sound.
She is a beautiful girl, about the same age as herself. Looking up, the dark skirt reaches to the calf, decorated with pear blossoms. There is a plain sachet at the waist. Looking up, you can piece it together. It is a small light green furisode. At least judging from her current appearance and body shape, she doesn't look like someone who lacks food and clothing. She is also wearing exquisite three-string earrings. But the quality of her hair is something else: the ends of her dark and back hair are slightly curled and pulled to the right. There was a section of hair that was too light for some unknown reason and faded to golden brown. It was braided and wrapped around the back, and it was fixed with a white hairpin. Is that jade? No, it's ivory, with the ends carved to look like ginkgo leaves.
She suffered from the sequelae of poor nutrition for at least a period of time. Ling Huan knew because she had seen relatives in similar situations. However, Ling Huan was not sure what the instrument in her hand was. Is that also...a three-stringed string? It seemed different, at least different from what she had seen. The wood is mahogany, and the covering is animal skin? At least it's not snakeskin.
"Are you... a relative of this family?" Ling Huan and Yi Yiran both looked at her.
She didn't speak, but shook her head as if she was just passing by. But at this moment, Ye Lingyu heard people's screams and turned his head to look over. She was horrified to find several shambling living corpses walking over, each with festering faces and a stench that was extremely terrifying. The frightened passers-by ran away one by one. The living corpse didn't seem to be chasing them, but was just moving slowly this way. Ling Huan clearly felt that her still small body was constantly shaking, and the arm carrying her was also shaking - or in fact, she herself was shaking. She finally realized what it felt like to be "too scared to walk." At this point, she couldn't move a step at all, and couldn't make a sound with her open mouth.
The woman of her own age looked back and seemed not as scared as the others.
"Oh...why are they still following me?"
She spoke, her voice very soft, like a breeze blowing through the grass.
She held the instrument in her hands and didn't play it, just scratched the three threads with some kind of white pick. Is that ivory too? The living corpse suddenly stood there, motionless. Ye Lingyu thought to himself, who is she? Why can we control the behavior of these monsters? This looks dangerous. Could it be...
"mother!!"
Shen Yiran finally couldn't hold himself back and yelled, which was as harsh as the sound made when a string breaks. Afterwards, she burst into tears. Ling Huan was frightened. The living corpses that had been standing suddenly started to move again and moved towards them. At this moment, someone climbed out of the wall at such a speed that Ling Huan felt as if the shadow of a bird had just passed over his head. But the next moment, Shen Wenzheng stood in front of the two of them with his stick horizontally. Immediately afterwards, Xie Zhe and Han Zhang also rushed out of the door.
The moment the two people came out, they only saw the shadow of the stick sweeping across their sight. The sound of the long stick cutting through the air was endless, and every move she made hit the target directly. This wonderful stick technique looks like it has been practiced before. It goes up and down, making people dazzled. Dial, tease, hook, circle, let, and pick, every movement is clean and neat, without any redundancy. They were stunned for a moment before they remembered to help.
When Xie Zhe drew his sword, the wind blew up. He made the blade follow the wind and used its strength to move. Han Chang knew that it was not appropriate to use magic at this moment, otherwise it would hurt others. He then pulled out the dagger and dealt with the living corpse. After all, those corpses are just dead people, and they are not as flexible as human beings. Three times, five times and two times, these three living corpses were beaten until they were lying on the ground. Ling Huan noticed that none of their weapons were stained with blood - they were all made of fine iron and finely crafted, and their swords and sticks were all extremely fast, so fast that even blood stains had no time to hang on them. Even the slightly sticky ones were quickly thrown away by the next move.
"You can't 'kill' them by stabbing them through the heart..."
Xie Zhe was stepping on the waist of a living corpse. It was struggling hard and kept moving even when it was pinned to the ground by his sword, just like a trapped crab. He drew out his sword and was about to behead it, when Han Chang suddenly bent down and stabbed the dagger into its head. It immediately stopped moving. Xie Zhe moved his feet and looked at Han Shang with doubts.
"Beheading is useless," he said. "When I just cut off the corpse's feet, I saw that they could still run and the feet were jumping like maggots. I remembered that Mrs. Shen had stabbed the head directly. If If you just cut off the head, I’m afraid the body can still move.”
Oops.
Xie Zhe turned around and found that there was indeed a headless living corpse that he had just beheaded rushing towards Ling Huan and Yiran. Xie Zhe stepped forward and cut the mess with a sharp knife. The meridians in its body broke instantly and it immediately fell to the ground. When cutting the tendons, he used too much force and chopped off one of the left hands of the corpse. This was a woman who had just died, and her hands were relatively intact, except for a few corpse spots. The hand fell to the ground, but a few fingers stood up on their own, and they quickly ran towards Shen Yiran. Ling Huan didn't think much, he used his right hand to push the child aside, and waved his left hand to try to resist its attack, but his wrist was tightly strangled. She could no longer think about why this thing moved and why it was so powerful. She pulled it hard with her right hand, but couldn't get it off. Even though it was just such a slender hand, it was extremely powerful, not at all like the strength its owner could exert when he was alive.
Several people were terrified and didn't know where to start. I'm afraid Ling Huan will be injured if he pulls hard. But if she doesn't help, her forearm will be cut off by that dead hand! However, it was at this moment that the sound of strings being plucked sounded again. It turned out that the woman did not run, but sat on a stone by the roadside and played the piano. I just made the piano make sounds. I'm afraid it's because the piano doesn't have a strap, so it can't be played directly.
The hand suddenly let go on its own. It slowed down a lot and crawled towards the place where the music came from. The subdued corpses, even corpse fragments, also used their own movement methods to move towards her in different postures and speeds. If any passerby looked at this scene, they would probably have nightmares for several nights.
They were all stunned.
"...It seems that I guessed right, they don't listen with their ears."
"You're doing experiments on us?" Han Chang was a little incredulous.
"This is a helpless move. I just thought of it for a moment. I have no intention of harming anyone. Go help the girl first. You guys should run away quickly. We can still delay here for a while."
Shen Wenzheng said sternly: "What kind of sorcery are you doing?! You can make such monsters do your bidding, what do you want!"
"If I wanted to harm you, I would have secretly sent them to attack you. You go to the east teahouse first - the only one open. I passed by there. I will explain it to you later. Don't look for medicine. , the girl’s injuries will be worse.”
It is understandable that Shen Wenzheng is so angry. Her daughter was almost attacked by a monster just now, but thanks to the kind-hearted girl Ling Huan, she was struck immediately. It was also her own responsibility to fail to protect her daughter, and she had no one to blame. What's more, for the safety of Ling Huan and her daughter, she had to evacuate this place. Could it be that Xie Zhe and Han Zhang didn't think so? It was really helpless to leave like this, but there was no other way. Although there are many of them, they can leave one person to confront this woman, but no one wants to leave Ling Hu alone and argue with this woman of unknown origin. What if she really knows some terrible magic?
They quickly left, heading to the teahouse to the east. The woman didn’t lie to them, indeed only one was in business. There were only two tables of people sitting inside, and the total number was as many as them. They ran to the second floor and ordered some tea. Han Shang asked the waiter about the nearest medical center to get some medicine. Fortunately, Ling Huan doesn't seem to feel any discomfort so far. Her skin was only broken a little, and there was not much blood. It was just painful and left a mark. Shen Wenzheng looked really uncomfortable.
"I'm really sorry, Miss Ye. If something goes wrong with you, I'm really... so kind and generous, how can I still bear it? Quickly, kowtow to my sister."
I am afraid that this kind of Jianghu woman would never do such a thing easily. As the saying goes, a man has gold at his knees, and the same goes for daughters. Still knowing who saved him, he knelt down neatly. Ling Huan immediately stood up and pulled her, saying hurriedly:
"No way! It's not a big deal for me, and it's not like I was bitten by a corpse. If that's the case, why don't you kowtow in front of my grave? It's because I'm too confident and think I can push it away. I went up to it stupidly, but unexpectedly I was caught by it, hahaha..."
"You're still laughing." Xie Zhe sighed several times, "Oh, don't do this kind of thing again next time."
Later, Han Zhang came back with the medicine and gave it to the kitchen to cook before applying it to Ling Huan. He kept it secret and didn't say what it was for. When he came back, he explained to Xie Zhe and the others that they couldn't let others know about it. When he was getting medicine, the people at the pharmacy were asking questions, because they were foreigners and no one would protect him if someone got infected. Nowadays, people are in panic. If anything goes wrong, they will be reported to the government immediately. Han Shang only said that he was prepared for any emergencies and prepared them first. Those people followed the previous prescription for detoxifying and reducing fever. He said that this could also be used to apply wounds externally, but if it was really bitten, it would not be of much use.
After applying the medicine, Ling Huan carefully pulled back his sleeves to cover the gauze so that no one would notice anything unusual. The few of them sat for a while, talked and drank some tea, and began to wonder whether the woman would come.
"I guess they just sent us away, so why are we here?" Shen Wenzheng said angrily, "They are probably from outside like us, otherwise it would have spread all over the town."
"It's not necessarily a good thing that she is making such a public statement and letting people from the government see it. I don't think she would take such a big risk to do such a thing. But whether she will come to see us is another matter. I'm probably afraid. Let’s extort her money.”
Han Shan sneered: "Huh, who says it's not the case? Although the sound of the piano has a spiritual energy, I can't tell what kind of magic it is. The shamisen looks like an ordinary piano. But...she When you say 'not listening with your ears', does it mean some other kind of resonance?"
Ling Huan thought to himself, it turns out this is the shamisen. She didn't say it out loud, a little afraid that everyone would laugh at her.
