This kind of smell is strange and familiar. It is strange because it is not often smelled, and it is even different from the rotten egg smell of ghosts that I have smelled before. And it's familiar because the smell is the same water smell we smelled when we pried open the stone box before. And after the balloon made a loud noise like it was exploding, the other ghosts who had originally planned to continue running towards us actually appeared stunned for a moment.
I understood immediately after seeing this. These ghosts seemed to be numerous in number, but in fact, they had never attacked us since we first saw them. Instead, they were slowly looking for our weaknesses along the way, and When they finally started to attack us, they didn't expect that I would be the killer. Even ghosts are afraid of being turned into ashes. The palm I gave just now almost made the child-like ghost fly directly into the sky. Other ghosts would be scared if they saw this scene.
When I thought of this, I became inexplicably excited. Originally, the ghosts were running towards us. Now I couldn't care about them anymore. Instead, I chased them. Everyone who came close to me was like a ghost. He greeted me with a slap to his forehead and heart. After taking the initiative, I started to be more ruthless, and the remaining ten meters were quickly worn out by us.
I originally wanted to kick open the door of my house. It's not like I've done this before, but Qin Bukong stopped me from doing this recklessly. He and I both have perfect hands and feet, so he quickly took out the key and threw it to Songzi, asking Songzi to open the door quickly. The formation in front of me, let alone pine nuts, has never been seen by me in my whole life. So although Songzi was eager to open the door, his trembling hands could not insert the key into the lock accurately. While Qin Bukong and I were dealing with the ghosts around us, I heard the clicking sound coming from my ears. That was the sound of a key hitting the lock. Finally, there was a click, which was the sound of the lock bolt popping up. I turned to one side and used my shoulder to push open the door. Songzi got in first, and I was the second one. Qin Bukong followed him for a while, and then made a funny gesture. The movement felt like pouring some dirty water out, and then the ghosts took two steps back. After finding the gap, Qin Bukong quickly stepped back and got into the house, and then closed the door with a clang.
Song Zi and I both collapsed on the ground and gasped. After Qin Bukong closed the door, he also pressed his shoulder against the door. Then he spit in the palm of his hand and used the saliva as ink to write and draw on the door. , wrote a sixteen-character spell. At this time, the feeling of constantly banging on the door from the outside disappeared. It seemed that the ghosts suddenly lost interest in the people in the room, but they did not leave. , on the contrary, through the water-rippled translucent window glass, I could still see the crowds of people outside, as if the ghosts crowded the alley and stood waiting quietly outside the door.
I tried to ease my mood, because what I encountered today was quite thrilling on the one hand, and the weirdest thing I have ever encountered on the other. Even after I was safe, I still felt very scared when I thought about it. If we talk about those ghosts If they had attacked us from the beginning, we would definitely not have chosen to go home, but would have found a safer and more appropriate way to deal with it. But just because they were all standing motionless, this inexplicable feeling was... This kind of indescribable weirdness makes people feel terrified.
Just when we all thought we were safe, there suddenly came a rustling sound from behind me. The sound was all too familiar to us. It was the sound of Ganmu spitting out snakes and letters in a powerful voice. So we quickly looked back and saw that across the back room, The curtain hung on the door, I could only look at the room from a height of about one and a half feet under the curtain. Originally there was only the side of Qin Bukong's bed and a shrine in the distance, but now the faint light in the room was reflected. In the red light, I actually saw four pairs of feet standing side by side, with their backs to us, facing the direction of the wooden frame that Gan Mu likes to sit on.
So I was startled and immediately got up from the ground. At this moment, Qin Bukong also noticed something was wrong, so he immediately walked to the door of the back room, stretched out his hands and gently grasped the curtain, and then pulled it with all his strength with a clatter. down.
Without the obstruction of the curtain, everything in the back room suddenly became clear. When I originally saw those four pairs of identical feet, I thought they were four ghosts from outside that had sneaked into the house. This number was simply out of the question and I could just beat them. But when the curtain was pulled down, I knew clearly. When I saw these four figures, I was so frightened that I almost screamed.
It must be emphasized that although I wanted to scream, I didn't really scream. At this time, Songzi screamed. The voice was as sharp as a falsetto, much like the feeling of a woman meeting a gangster. , it’s hard for me to imagine why a man would make such a cry. However, Songzi's sharp and piercing scream suddenly woke me up. As I backed away, I said to Qin Bukong, "Stand away, there is a ghost inside!"
The reason why I said there was a ghost inside was that I could tell that the guy inside was a ghost and not a human being without looking carefully. If the ghosts outside only gave me the impression that they were ghosts through their behavior and behavior, the four identical guys in front of me told me the fact that I was a ghost very intuitively with their appearance.
The four of them look exactly the same. They are so tall that if they don't bend their heads, they will break through the ceiling. However, they don't look like very tall people, but like they are elongating a normal person. , the whole body was stretched, so when Qin Bukong pulled down the curtain, the four guys turned their heads slowly but in exactly the same movement, with four identical stretched faces. It looked like a man, but due to the stretching, the corners of its mouth drooped down very strangely, as did the corners of its eyes. The lower eyelids even exposed the red-black inner eyelids due to the stretching. But the eyes of these four ghosts are a little different. Even ghosts can change the color of their eyes, but after all they appear in human form, so the size of their eyes generally does not change. However, the eyes of these four people in front of them are surprisingly small and generally black. The kernel part is about the size of a longan kernel, but theirs is only as big as a mung bean.
This resulted in a small black dot on their white eyeballs, and then all eight eyes looked towards us together, which felt very penetrating. Maybe because I was used to the ghosts outside just staring at people without attacking, I naively thought that the same was true for these four guys. Qin Bukong stood on one side of the door, separated by the wall, so the first person these four guys saw after turning their heads was me. And just when they locked their eyes on me, they suddenly opened four large Mouth, roared at me for a long time.
The way they grow their mouths is just like the little mud figures I made under the trees when I was a child. They made a mouth for the little figures, but when the mouths are opened, they will pull each other due to the stickiness of the mud, creating a kind of flour-like texture. sense of tearing. Those four mouths were so scary that they could almost swallow my big head in one bite. And that roaring sound is like a person who has had his tongue pulled out. When pulling out, the trachea was accidentally pulled out, so although the sound is loud, it does not seem to come from the vocal cords. With that violent roar, I actually felt the tables, chairs, doors and windows in the room shaking, and I also smelled a strong smell of rotten eggs in my nose. Yes, this is the smell that a ghost should have, from the smoky smell The extent, and the shock caused by its roar, I immediately knew that this guy was a fierce guy, and maybe he was the ghost at the root of all this.
After hearing the roar, Qin Bukong dodged to the side, then quickly turned sideways and looked inside the door, then ran towards us without thinking, stood with me, and even said He reached out and grabbed my arm. This damn old man was really very strong, and it made my arm hurt slightly when he grabbed it. But at that time, I kept my eyes on the four guys and didn’t realize that it turned out that Qin Bukong’s actions were exactly what he was afraid of. result.
After a few seconds, the roar stopped, and my ears were still buzzing from the previous shock. Songzi trembled beside me and asked in horror, S... Situ, what on earth is this? I also stammered, "I don't know, I've never seen it." Qin Bukong also looked very nervous. Even he, an old sage who has been traveling around the world for decades, seemed to have unsteady breath when he spoke at this moment. He said, this seems to be a cha... If this is the case, Is the big guarding ghost under the character "魑" actually a Sha?
Fortunately, when I was studying art in the early days, since I didn't have the opportunity to practice, I had more time to read books about strange things, so I had a certain understanding of "sha". In Buddhism, it is regarded as a big ghost king that specializes in devouring other dead souls. It obtains the power of other dead souls by eating them, thereby making itself stronger and stronger. And Sha will not appear easily, every time it appears , often a large number of people die. According to legend, early plagues, the Black Death, etc. were all the result of the brakes. Putting it this way, it can explain why so many ghosts of all kinds appear when we trigger the word "魑". These ghosts may not all be like the people we see, but they have been suppressed for thousands of years. The various souls that were annexed have now become its soldiers, people we know or don't know. On the one hand, they confuse the prey, and on the other hand, they help Shalai deal with us.
When Qin Bukong said this, I immediately recalled everything in the book, but before that, I had always thought it was a legendary thing that had never really existed. After all, there are obscure and anthropomorphic things in Buddhist books. too much. So I took a closer look at these four guys again, and this time my eyes stayed on their bellies. Under their white loose clothes, there was a round bulge that seemed to be bubbling. Breathing, but every time I "breathe" and my belly bulges, it feels like countless tiny faces, crowded together, and then their outlines are exposed through clothes!
