"Oh." The strange thing is that Duan Guang just responded with an unclear meaning, and it was impossible to tell whether it was recognition or just a breath.
He slowly walked towards the village with his hands behind his back, and soon saw the entrance of the village. The entrance of the village was filled with countless debris. At a glance, he saw that almost all the debris inside had come to life. At the moment, they were just pretending to be ordinary things. .
Chen Hu was shocked by the gatehouse just now. He walked inside very quickly. He was blocked by debris, but his sight was not blocked. His sight swept across the nearby village. Chen Hu was even more unbelievable.
"No, isn't this Yinye Village? That house is Aunt Liu's house, that house belongs to Wang Erma, and that house, the soybean juice at home is often ground in the morning and has a special fragrance..."
"Master, what's going on!"
Duan Guang said, "It's just what you see."
Chen Hu couldn't get a clear answer, so he wanted to rush into the village directly and reach out to lift the debris blocking the village entrance. However, it was obviously just a bench with a broken leg, but he couldn't lift it up. Thinking it was stuck somewhere in the pile of debris, I moved it out with a broken piece of wood, but it still didn't move.
Just when Chen Hu was surprised and puzzled, the piece of wood suddenly moved on its own, and the rear end spun and landed on Chen Hu's back. Chen Hu was knocked so hard that he fell into the pile of debris, and then other objects in the pile of debris. Half-ruined ropes, chairs without backrests, doors with only door panels, and other messy things were wrapped around Chen Hu's body or compacted.
“Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh that gosh, I’m a coward, don’t mess with me!”
Duan Guang just looked on with a smile.
Since Duan Guang was not in a hurry and Zhao Ning was just watching from the side, it was obvious that Duan Guang knew about the existence of these Yin spirits and wanted to use this method to make Chen Hu familiar with and adapt to them as soon as possible.
"I see, you are Yin spirits, aren't you? Oh, don't touch there, it's so itchy, haha, it's so itchy." Chen Hu yelled in the pile of debris in embarrassment, "I am also a corpse mover, the next corpse mover People, we are half colleagues! Hiss, you can’t smash it! Master, help me!”
There was a lot of fuss for a long time.
Duan Guang sighed, stepped forward, and took out a simple bell from his arms. The bell swayed slightly and made a crisp ringing sound. At this moment, all the living things stopped and then returned to their places. , No longer playing tricks on Chen Hu, nor blocking the entrance to the village.
Chen Hu rubbed his back and got up with difficulty, "Master, these things are really annoying."
Duan Guang took a look and felt helpless towards this heartless apprentice, but he didn't say anything else and just walked towards the village with his hands behind his back.
It's only a good thing to torment people, but it's a big deal if you torment people to death.
Chen Hu followed Duan Guang into the village, Zhao Ning followed behind, and heard Chen Hu say, "It's not exactly the same. It feels like many changes have been made. The layout of the village seems to be similar. The yards are built around a road. Maybe it was too dark and I didn’t see clearly.”
Chen Hu muttered to himself. No one answered him. Zhao Ning looked at the buildings around him. In fact, the houses in the village were very dilapidated. Many of the doors were opened and they were filled with dust. But If you look carefully, you can still see some deep or shallow footprints, which seem to have been stepped on before.
Zhao Ning knew that they were probably the only ones in this place, and there would be no one else. Could it be that the corpse movers they called during that period were the ones who moved the corpses in these houses? But what kind of village could have so many people die all at once, and still have their houses intact, waiting for the corpse movers to move them after thousands of years of dust?
The mystery between these two people seems to be connected to a certain answer that Zhao Ning wants to know urgently.
This made Zhao Ning remain silent as she followed them to the center of the village.
Until Duan Guang paused in front of a house, there was no sign of opening or entering the house. The dust accumulated on it was already very thick. It was probably the house with the deepest dust in the entire village.
"Master, this small courtyard is a bit like your residence in Yinye Village." Chen shouted.
Duan Guang ignored it, just stared at the house, and suddenly asked, "Chen Hu, do you know why we call the corpse mover?"
"Isn't it just to move the corpses underground to the ground and let them rest in peace?" Chen Hu scratched his head in confusion.
"Then have you thought about what we should do after we move the body to the ground? Or who should we give the body to?"
"To whom?" Chen paused and asked strangely, "These corpses have been sealed in stone for more than three thousand years. Do they have any relatives on the ground? Are we going to find those relatives?"
Chen Hu's face fell as soon as he had this guess. Does this mean that he will help these corpses search for their heritage in the Yangshen Realm like a needle in a haystack?
Duan Guang shook his head helplessly, "That's all, you won't really understand until you experience it."
Chen Hu was puzzled, but Zhao Ning was deep in thought. She always felt that Duan Guang was implying something.
But Duan Guang suddenly took a step forward. He walked to the door of the dusty small courtyard. Just as he was about to open the door, the strange thing was that the entire small house retreated half a foot.
Chen Hu was stunned. If the distance between him and Duan Guang was not there, Chen Hu would have thought that Duan Guang was not close to the small courtyard, but was still half a foot away from the small courtyard.
This was the first time that Zhao Ning saw a living courtyard. It had no other operations. It just stepped back when Duan Guang approached, clearly telling Duan Guang not to approach the small courtyard, but what Zhao Ning felt was not Stubborn, but aggrieved.
Zhao Ning didn't understand how she felt the emotions of Yin Ling. She looked up at the village that was hazy in the darkness. It was desolate and silent. Even though the Yin Ling's naughty play just now did not make the surrounding atmosphere lively, it was full of people. Depressed, dead and cold.
In such a situation where the evil spirits in the small courtyard were retreating, Duan Guang's stretched out hand was still in the air, and after a while he murmured, "What is supposed to come will always come, there is no escape. Moreover, it is time." "
He took another step forward, but the Yin spirit in the small courtyard did not listen to him and continued to retreat. Duan Guang moved forward slowly, and the Yin spirit in the small courtyard retreated. This was repeated until the Yin spirit in the small courtyard retreated to another building behind. The house is surrounded by walls and cannot retreat.
All the items in the small courtyard were seen flying behind the courtyard door, blocking the door, as if they were determined not to open the courtyard door.
This is the first time Zhao Ning has seen such a complicated Yin spirit, young but stubborn.
Seeing this, Duan Guang finally stopped at the door, closed his eyes, and let out a long sigh. When he opened his eyes again, his eyes were full of complicated emotions. He raised his hand and shook the bell in his hand.
Another crisp ringtone.
Under the ringing of the bell, a cry came from somewhere.
This bell seems to have the effect of deterring Yin spirits. No, under the sound of the bell, everything in the small courtyard returns to its original position, and the courtyard door opens automatically. This bell not only has the effect of deterring Yin spirits, but can also control Yin spirits to do what they want.
When the courtyard door opened, Duan Guang did not walk in immediately, but handed the bell in his hand to Chen Hu, "Have you seen how to use it?"
"I see clearly." Chen Hu nodded blankly.
Duan Guang tore off two more leather strips from his clothes and handed them to Duan Guang, "Bindfold your eyes?"
"Why... why?"
Duan Guang did not answer directly, but looked at Zhao Ning, "If Fairy Lin doesn't want evil things to invade her, it's best to cover her eyes, let alone use her spiritual sense to detect."
Zhao Ning looked at him with a blank expression, which clearly meant that she wanted Duan Guang to explain clearly.
Duan Guang knew that Zhao Ning would not listen to him if he couldn't explain clearly, "There is a statue in the house, which is a petrified corpse. Once you see his eyes, you will also be petrified. No matter what your cultivation level, this is here." rule."
"If I don't look at it, nothing will happen to me?"
"At least the old man has been moving corpses up and down for decades, and he has never been in danger while blindfolded." Duan Guang softened his tone, "Fairy Lin is here to find a way to leave the Yangshen Realm. You can After leaving this village, walk two hundred miles northwest, and there is a small town there. Three thousand years ago, a meteor crashed near the town and was enshrined on the top of the town tower as a sacred object by the residents of the town."
Zhao Ning didn't say a word and just listened to him say, "If Fairy Lin wants to get it, it's best to listen to the old man's words."
The two looked at each other in the dim light. After a moment, Zhao Ning no longer insisted. A gauze ribbon appeared in his hand. The gauze ribbon floated up automatically and wrapped around Zhao Ning's eyes several times until he couldn't see the surroundings at all.
After being quiet for a while, Duan Guang told Chen Hu, "Go, Chen Hu, go and open the door of the room, carry the statue in the room on your back, ring the bell, and sing the spiritual poem that Master has taught you repeatedly."
Chen Hu subconsciously went to take off the cloth tied around his eyes, but was stopped by Duan Guang, "From now on, until you put the statue on the ground, you can't take off the cloth."
"But...Master, I can't see the road clearly like this, let alone walk up such long steps. If I fall, I will be shattered to pieces." Chen Hu couldn't help but want to resist, but Duan Guang was as ruthless as ever. He patted him on the back of the head and said, "Did you not listen to a word of what I just said? You can't take it off or look at the stone statue, otherwise you will suffer more than being shattered into pieces!"
"Master, master, please stop fighting. I know this, and I will just do it."
Chen Hu wanted to jump away to avoid being beaten, but he was blindfolded and his movements were much smaller. He groped into the yard, and then tentatively moved forward step by step.
After a while, Chen Hu touched the door, pushed it in, and then fell down. Duan Guang hated the iron, "When you were in the yard, you still knew how to test your feet step by step. How did you get into the house?" Instead, you become reckless, and even a broken stool leg can knock you out. If you throw the statue on your back when moving the corpse, I will kill you...kill you..."
For some reason, Duan Guang did not continue speaking.
Zhao Ning paused for a moment and subconsciously turned her ears towards where Chen Hu was. She heard a slight sound. It was Chen Hu's feet moving away from the object blocking his feet. The object was not heavy and had an irregular shape. The sound of wood moving as it rubbed against the rough ground made the sound of moving wood. Even though Zhao Ning listened to the details like this, he couldn't deduce with just his ears that what was blocking Chen Hu was a broken stool leg.
Does this mean... Duan Guang was not blindfolded, he was watching everything with his eyes open.
Why did he go against his own warning to the two men?
If their eyes would be turned to stone when they saw the stone statue, what about him? Since Chen Hu is also a corpse mover, this means that just as a corpse mover, he will still be petrified. The specialness of that moment may be due to... his connection with the stone statue in the room.
Thinking of the strange retreat of the evil spirits in this courtyard, and thinking of Chen Hu's initial remarks that this courtyard resembled Duan Guang's home... Zhao Ning fell silent.
At this time, Chen Hu groped into the inner room and touched a dusty, completely petrified humanoid stone statue on the bed in the inner room.
He let out a slight exclamation when he touched it, but he didn't dare to touch it. He only heard Duan Guang's voice coming from outside, "When you find it, carry it on your back, and ring the bell when you go out."
"I understand, Master, you have said it several times, and I can hear it ringing in my ears."
Chen echoed and fumbled to place the human-shaped stone statue on his back. With his other hand, he pulled off the rag strips on his body and tied them together to prevent it from falling. He was also afraid that the stone statue would knock somewhere and disturb the first person. With the remains sealed in stone, he protected the corners of the stone statue with one hand and walked out step by step, even slower.
Duan Guang seemed a little anxious, "Why are you lingering in there? Are you taking off the blindfold..."
His voice stopped suddenly, and Chen Hu's footsteps happened to fall at the door. He followed Duan Guang's instructions before, slowly rang the bell, and sang, "The ghost is traveling, the soul has no escape. The soul is back!" There is no distance. The soul has returned! There is no east and no west, no south and no north...①"
Accompanied by the ringing of bells and singing, Chen Hu walked past Zhao Ning with somewhat heavy footsteps. After a while, Zhao Ning felt another person walking in front of him, following Chen Hu.
It could be Duan Guang, or it could only be Duan Guang, but the steps were extremely light, as if someone was walking on tiptoe, and at this moment, Zhao Ning only felt a very shallow trace of life, and it was like a candle burning out. The last flame will be extinguished at any time.
There was a strange uneasiness in Zhao Ning's heart, and she also followed Chen Hu's footsteps. The sharp five senses of a cultivator, even if the vision is closed, the other four senses can accurately guide Zhao Ning's path.
Chen Hu is not a quiet person. The fact that he can ring the bell like this and sing for so long is purely due to Duan Guang's shock just now. But now that Duan Guang has not spoken for a long time since he came out, Chen Hu slowly stopped. , muttered, "Master, my mouth is dry from singing. Can I have a drink of water? It will be fine soon."
No one answered him, but he seemed to be afraid of being stopped, so he quickly unscrewed the water bag, took a sip of water, and stuffed the plug into it. Chen Hu said with a smile, "Master, I said it quickly, hehe. .”
His voice sounded a little harsh, but no one slapped him on the back of the head. Strangely, when he went to scratch the back of his head, he hit the stone statue on his back first.
He asked again, "Master, where are we going to go up the long stone steps? It turns out that the place where we came down is too far, and there are many Yin spirits. We can't get through now."
Still quiet.
Chen Hu's breathing became lighter for a moment, "Master, Master, are you still following me? Are you still there?"
"Master, Master, what's wrong with you? What happened?"
He seemed to have a sense of crisis when Duan Guang didn't reply for a long time. Just when he was about to take off the blindfold and tried to look for it, he only heard a very soft response, "Chen Hu."
It was Duan Guang's voice, but it was a bit ethereal.
Zhao Ning fell behind and stood with her arms folded. She had already realized something.
At this moment, Duan Guang has...
"Hey! Master! You are here! I was scared to death. I thought you hadn't caught up yet!" Chen Hu stopped pulling the cloth and muttered carelessly.
But at this time, Shi Shiguang said lightly, "The long steps up are coming down. Let's go quickly. We must remember the words of Master. Don't take off the cloth until you step on the ground."
Before Chen Hu could react, as soon as he made a move, he felt a step appear at his feet.
In Zhao Ning's perception, those animated steps were laid down step by step from the endless darkness above his head until they reached Chen Hu's feet.
Chen Hu reflexively stepped onto the first step. He seemed to realize something at this moment, but those living steps pushed him up a long way.
"Master, Master!"
His tone was suddenly full of indescribable fear and sorrow, "Master, are you going to let me leave the master directly, Master!!!"
His voice grew louder and farther, seeming to have penetrated deep into the darkness of the sky.
"Fairy Lin." Duan Guang's voice was still erratic, but he did not follow Chen Hu to the heights. "You can take off the blindfolded ribbon now."
The ribbon loosened itself and fell on Zhao Ning's shoulders. Zhao Ning opened his eyes and looked at Duan Guang in front of him. Sure enough, Duan Guang's figure had disappeared at this moment, and his toes were hanging on the ground. He was no longer a person, but a soul. .
"What I said to Fairy Lin is true. Those stone statues really cannot see the eyes. They have been here for three thousand years. There is something terrible hidden here. It will seal everyone who sees it through the stone statues and strip away people's souls."
"The fairy should have guessed that the stone statue I asked Chen Hu to carry was myself. When the soul and the stone seal reunite again, they will not wake up from the body again, but will completely die."
"Why do you have a body that has been sealed in stone for three thousand years?"
