The grimace Taoist priest looked at Luo Laoqi with Zhang Laozi's face and kept cursing. The scene was so irritating to the eyes that he could only turn his head away and keep an eye out. At this time, Luo Laoqi had already connected the ghostface Taoist priest's arm, and he was still worried. Forgetting about his own face, he said to Xia Houyun: "Old senior, can you lend your mirror to Sa's family?"
Xia Houyun glanced at the grim-faced Taoist priest. The grim-faced Taoist priest nodded and said, "If you want to take a photo, you have to be mentally prepared. To be honest, even a poor Taoist like you can't look at your face now."
"What?! The Sa family is disfigured?!" Luo Laoqi grabbed the bronze mirror and took a few photos of his face. He stumbled and said in a voiceless voice: "Ah! Who the hell is this!"
"Senior Xiahou, this bronze mirror is a demon mirror. You have revealed your true colors." The Taoist priest with a grimace interjected.
"Ah..." Luo Laoqi rubbed his face vigorously, and when he saw it was still the same, he suddenly said in despair: "Is this something complicated?! The Sa family is going to die!"
"Taoist Priest, please stop making fun of Lao Qi." He Siniang walked to Luo Lao Qi, patted his shoulder and comforted him: "You were just attacked by the evil spirit, and your face was a little bit windy, but you also Don't worry too much, you will recover slowly."
"Sister, you just stand and talk without pain in your back. Can you not worry about the Sa family since they are so bad? But what are you talking about? Can the Sa family's face change back?"
"Yes, don't worry. If you don't believe me, just ask Senior Xiahou."
Xia Houyun nodded and said: "What Siniang He said is right. Among the people, there are often unintentional children who are infected by wind evil and become slurred in speech and tongue. With a little care, it is very easy to return to the original state. This is an 'exception' The wind is not as terrible as the inner wind."
"Then can senior's illness be delayed? Do we have to leave someone to take Lao Qi back to the city for treatment first?"
"That's not necessary. Luo Baotou can just rub his face with his hands from time to time. You are still young and your skin is much more elastic than that of an old man."
"After talking for a long time, I heard something from what the old man said." Luo Laoqi sighed, and then said: "It's hard to let the Sa family go back to the Sa family first. I'm afraid you won't be able to move the treasures in the tomb clean."
"You damn thing are just worrying about that. A tall and thick man holds a small mirror and sighs there. He is not afraid of being laughed at if it spreads. Hurry up and return the bronze mirror to Senior Xiahou. Next, we have to find a way."
"Is there no path?" He Siniang looked into the depths of the corridor and asked, "Is it blocked inside?"
"Well, Pindao didn't find any mechanism. Let's split up and search carefully, trying not to miss any corner. If this is really a dead end, then it will be fucked."
Several people immediately dispersed throughout the corridor and began to investigate. He Siniang still stayed behind to take care of the fainted Xia Houxiang. The Taoist priest with a grimace and Luo Laoqi walked towards the end of the corridor. When passing by the freak, Luo Laoqi said: "The Sa family just saw it. This ghost thing has just been possessed by an evil spirit. You see, it looks like a mushroom that has become a spirit. It must not be a good thing. Let’s roast it over a fire, right?”
"We haven't found the path yet, so don't rush to burn it. Remember to walk around it and don't add chaos to it."
The Taoist priest with a grimace returned to his previous position and wanted to start from the ground, but when he looked around, he felt that there did not seem to be any mechanism around him, because if there was a secret pavilion hidden in the wall of the tomb in the corridor, unless it was covered with a coating on the outer layer , otherwise it would be easy to detect with the naked eye, but the walls and floor of the corridor are all made of gray-white rock, and the shovel marks on them are still clearly visible. How can you hide any secret pavilion?
Thinking of this, the grimace Taoist priest suddenly felt that Mao Ni was at the top of the corridor? He hurriedly raised his head, but he saw an old face in front of him. The Taoist priest with a grimace shrank his neck in shock and quickly took two steps back. He picked up the Long Ming Dao and took a closer look. He saw that there was another figure at the top of the corridor above. This strange mural uses black paint as a background and bright red paint to depict the image of a cunningly smiling old woman. The old woman is covered in red robes, with disheveled hair and an ugly face. She holds a heart in one hand and spreads out her five fingers on the other hand, showing off her sharp swords. The armor is like an attacker. There are many corpses lying in the background next to the old woman. Each one has been disemboweled and has fat and blood flowing across it. The whole mural is very bold, giving the hateful old woman a three-dimensional and vivid depiction. It feels like The upper body has already drilled out of the rock wall, and the next moment it will fly to hurt people.
The mural depicting the old woman occupies a fraction of the length of the top of the corridor. Most of it is still the image of auspicious beasts and clouds that everyone saw when they first came in. Although the two murals are mainly black and red, their painting styles are completely different. Different, it feels like the front foot is still swimming among the auspicious clouds, and the back foot has stepped into the gate of the underworld, and two completely different murals can appear in one corridor. This is also a situation that the Taoist priest with a grimace has never encountered.
The Taoist priest with a grimace looked at the face of the old woman in the painting, and felt that it looked so damn similar to Luo Laoqi's current appearance. Is this what the resentful corpse that raises Gu looks like? However, the Taoist priest knows the image of this old woman with a grimace. She is obviously the "Eater Heart Po" popular among the people. How can it be related to the resentful corpse?
Shixinpo is a kind of evil ghost. In ancient times, it was called "Tiaopo" because its lower limbs have only one leg and can only jump and walk. The name Shixinpo was only given after the induction of hundreds of ghosts in modern times.
It is said that after Yunyou Qin Nachuan wrote "Shaling Pu", he spent several years compiling a "Jiuzhou Spiritual Records", which is divided into "Three Hundred and Six Strange Beasts", "One Hundred and Eighty Evil Ghosts", "Seventy-two Spirits and Monsters Chapter" and "Thirty-six Evil Demon Chapters" summarize and classify all kinds of demons and ghosts in China. Among them, the Evil Ghost Chapter records 108 kinds of evil ghosts, and "Eat-heart Po" is also included in it. Inside, it is said that this kind of evil spirit will appear at the crossroads every moonlit night, sometimes sitting on the roadside disguised as a poor old woman; sometimes hanging in the treetops to hide its whereabouts, as long as nocturnal merchants approach it, it will immediately reveal its true form It scares pedestrians to extinguish their life lights, and then opens their chests to take out the hot hearts and livers and eat them. This is a kind of evil spirit that is not profound but very cruel.
The reason why the grimace Taoist priest has heard of Shi Xinpo is because the evil ghost chapter of "Jiuzhou Spiritual Monster Record" is widely circulated among the people, and many people in the world have heard about it, but only the "evil ghost chapter" and all the other chapters are Qin Nachuan died before it could be disseminated. Few people have seen the complete manuscript of "Jiuzhou Spiritual Records". However, this manuscript somehow ended up in the hands of Qinglong Bazi, and they also Relying on this "Encyclopedia of Strange Beasts" to gain a firm foothold in the Mushroom Gate.
The grim-faced Taoist lowered his neck and said to Xia Houyun, who was a few steps away: "Senior, have you made any progress?"
Xia Houyun was groping for the tomb wall. He shook his head when he heard this. The method they used to search for traps was very unique. They placed their index and middle fingers together on the wall, and then slowly moved around. It seemed that they could use just the touch of their fingers. Sensing the changes in the wall, the grim-faced Taoist priest guessed that they should have a unique skill unique to their fingertips, similar to the critical judge's pulse-cutting technique, because if there is a mechanism hidden in the tomb wall, it will definitely resonate with the wall, but sometimes it will be very subtle. , it is difficult for an expert to notice that among the Mushroom Sect with this unique skill, only Li Tianwen's group of critical judges belongs, but now it seems that Faqiu Tianguan probably also possesses this skill.
Seeing that Xia Houyun had not made any progress, the grim-faced Taoist priest said: "Senior, stop searching for now, come and study this mural with Pindao." Then he greeted Luo Laoqi: "Lao Qi, you are here too, Pindao seems to Can’t reach the top of the corridor.”
The three of them gathered under the mural of Shi Xin Po. Xia Houyun saw it and said strangely: "The front is an auspicious picture, and the back is the Heart Eater Ghost. This is indeed a bit strange. Does the Taoist think there is something fishy in this painting?"
"I have never encountered this kind of situation, so I would like to ask my seniors for advice."
"This is unreasonable according to the burial system, but the Hu people have their own customs. We may not be able to guess it clearly, but after all, this is just a mural. Is it possible that there are still mechanisms hidden inside? ?”
"I think it's possible." The grim-faced Taoist priest seemed to have discovered something. He tiptoed and pointed at Shi Xin Po's face and said, "Old Qi, touch here."
"Why are you touching this old witch's face?" Luo Laoqi didn't know what was going on, but he still touched Shi Xinpo's face, and then retracted his hand as if he was electrocuted. Taoist Priest Xia and Xia Houyun saw this. They all asked in a hurry: "What's wrong?!"
"His grandma's... this old witch's face..." Luo Laoqi didn't know how to express it for a moment, so he had to take the grimace Taoist priest's torch and hit Shi Xin Po's face. Under the fire, the mural began to quickly The painting was deformed, and the background color in the painting was also baked away, but only Shi Xinpo's face did not change much, it just gradually changed from red to dry purple.
"Stop it, Lao Qi!" The grim-faced Taoist saw something fishy, and quickly asked Luo Lao Qi to hand over the torch to him, and then burned the mural along the outline of Shi Xin Po. Soon, all the background colors in the mural were burned away. , there was only a pungent smell of paint in the corridor, and looking above the head, there was only a lone human figure left, looking at everyone as if embedded in the rock wall, Xia Houyun took a breath when he saw this , said in surprise: "It's a person! This... this is a 'corpse mural'!"
"Senior, have you ever seen such a wild way?" the Taoist priest with a grimace asked.
Xia Houyun nodded and replied: "There is often such a cruel method in the Western Regions. People are taken to death and then stuck in the rock wall for painting. It seems that the same is true for this painting of evil spirits eating hearts, but this so-called The evil ghost is just a container for cultivating poison."
"It's not just that simple. Look, senior." The Taoist Priest with a grimace pointed at the outline of Shi Xin Po with a torch and said, "The rock wall above the corridor has a layer of wooden boards glued on it to facilitate the painting of murals. As long as...Old Seven! You do it Well?!"
The grim-faced Taoist priest was talking when he suddenly saw Luo Laoqi start to crumble again. He unknowingly took out a crowbar and began to poke the corpse of Shixinpo on it. After the corpse was made into a zombie, it became more and more shriveled over time. He got up, and after being poked and poked by him, it gradually became loose, and then suddenly smashed down. The three of them were so frightened that they quickly ran away. The Taoist priest with a grimace turned around and was about to scold Luo Laoqi, but when he glanced at him, he saw only a zombie. After being smashed down, a black hole suddenly appeared on the top of the corridor, from which the whistling sound of the wind could be heard, and the blowing torch flickered on and off.
