"Come, mother will sew your hair."
In the desolate field, a woman holding a needle and thread slowly waved her hand.
"Come on."
A naked child held a skeleton in his arms, threw it into the woman's arms with a smile, and then held up the skull to act coquettishly towards the woman.
"Mom, look, there are bugs in my head."
"Okay, okay, I saw it."
The woman smiled, pulled out a centipede from the hole in the head, and patted the child's buttocks.
"Lie down."
"oh."
The child responded, and immediately turned into a headless corpse and fell into the woman's lap.
The woman picked up the head and carefully aligned it with the neck of the rotting corpse, and in the dimness, sewed it carefully.
Li Changan: "..."
If this situation were in any other place, the Taoist priest would have struck it with a sword, but now... well, looking at it, I still feel like the cat is scratching in my heart and the sword is itching in my hand.
He simply turned his head and stopped looking at them.
Turning around, I saw a group of men here holding farm tools and digging holes in the ground.
After digging for a while, a man suddenly said:
"Is this the right size and depth?"
Several people looked at each other for a while, and one of them said: "Try it and you will know."
After saying that, he jumped into the pit and lay down properly.
"Oh, it's just right to bury me!"
…………
Li Changan was speechless.
If a living person stays among a bunch of ghosts, his outlook on life will inevitably be affected. It just so happened that it was time for him to leave.
Suddenly, there was a scream behind him.
"Son!"
Li Changan suddenly turned around, but it was the mother and son from before.
At this moment, the child's head had been sewn shut, but his body became black and blue, his face became even more hideous, and he suddenly turned into a ghost.
"Oops!"
The child was infected with resentment.
In a short period of time, the child had grabbed his mother's lapel, not acting coquettishly, but opening his mouth and biting it down.
At the critical moment.
Li Changan arrived in time. He raised his hand to hold the child's chin and closed his open mouth. Before the child could make any other moves, Li Changan had already taken out a yellow talisman and placed it on his forehead.
The Taoist priest put the child on the ground. The child's body couldn't help twisting. The face under the yellow talisman looked like the ferociousness of an evil spirit at one moment, and the grievance of a child at another.
Although the woman was still in shock, she relied on instinct and grabbed Li Changan's sleeve and asked eagerly:
"Taoist Master, what's wrong with my son?"
Li Changan waved his hand.
"It's okay, it's just resentment that attacks my heart."
What was affixed to the child's head was just a calming talisman. The reason why it could immobilize the child was to help his own mental state and resentment.
This time, Li Changan also figured it out.
No wonder, despite this misfortune, these village ghosts still did not turn into evil ghosts. It turns out that all the resentment is locked in the skull and used to breed ghost soldiers. Once the head is taken back, the resentment of death is also recovered. Fortunately, I didn't have time to leave, otherwise the ghosts in this village...
Li Changan secretly rejoiced, placed his hand on the charm and chanted softly.
"The gods of the ten directions are as numerous as sand and dust. They transform into the realms of the ten directions to save the people of the world..."
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The child gradually calmed down under Li Changan's chanting. Finally, the Taoist priest reached out and closed his eyes for him.
Li Changan stood up and looked back at the ghosts.
After discovering this gang of ghosts, the women did not sew their heads, but the men stopped digging holes and just stood there blankly looking at themselves.
"Why did you stop? Keep going."
Li Changan's response was an embarrassing silence.
After a long time, more and more old people came out.
"Taoist Priest, I'll discuss it later and won't suture the head for now."
"Why?" Li Changan was a little confused.
"The Taoist Master has also seen it." The old man smiled bitterly, "Once the head is sewn together, it will be infected by resentment and turn into a vicious ghost. Such ghosts cannot be reincarnated."
"What's so difficult about this?" Hearing the reason, Li Changan laughed dumbly, "I'll save you one by one, isn't that all?"
Unexpectedly, after hearing this, the old man just bent down and bowed.
"The Taoist Master is so benevolent and righteous, we can't repay kindness with enmity."
"What are you talking about? You..."
Li Changan was halfway through speaking when he thought of the reason.
"Taoist Master, you have also thought of it... I have long heard that the leader of the rebel army in the city is good at using magic. The officers and soldiers killed us not for food, but to use our resentment to cast magic."
The old man held his head in his arms, his transformed face looking miserable.
"We rashly asked the Taoist priest to break the evil spirit of 'Jingguan', and we have already harmed the Taoist priest. If we still ask the Taoist priest to waste time on us and cannot escape in time, and attract the officers and soldiers during the introduction, this is not repaying a favor with an enemy. Does the Taoist priest bring the disaster of killing?"
"Hahahaha."
After listening, Li Changan laughed loudly.
"Why should I worry, old man?"
"With a war imminent, how can the officers and soldiers find the energy to pay attention to us? Even if they do, the time it has taken for this news to come and go is enough time."
"But……"
The old man wanted to speak, but Li Changan interrupted him and said:
"It's nothing, husband, don't forget, we still have more than half a bottle of rootless water, which is a good material for praying for salvation! Even rootless water is useless..."
Li Changan patted the sword on his waist and smiled without saying a word.
……………………
Outside Jiangling City, numerous camps surrounded the city.
In the large tent of the Chinese army, there was only a middle-aged Taoist priest sitting on a futon.
Suddenly, a ray of blue light penetrated from the curtain.
The Taoist priest suddenly opened his eyes, and the blue light had already flown in front of his eyes. It suddenly swelled and turned into a man holding a long sword and slashing towards him!
"Pro."
The Taoist didn't panic. He pinched his fingers and spoke the truth.
The man holding the sword immediately emitted green light and fell into the Taoist's hand, but it was half of the "Edict".
Looking back at the images brought back by the "Edict", I have the short hair of a monk but wear the clothes of a Taoist priest.
"Monk? No, Taoist!"
The Taoist's expression changed for a while, and he finally stood up and shouted outside the tent.
"Please come over quickly, General Luo."
Not long after.
The heavy curtain opened, and a general wearing a helmet broke into the tent.
"Taoist Priest, what's the matter?"
"General, wait and see."
The middle-aged Taoist priest pointed to the center of the tent, where there was a huge sand table. The content on the sand table is detailed. In addition to the city's prefecture and mountain passes, the villages scattered around the city are also marked one by one. But strangely, a stick of incense is inserted into the position of each village.
And where the middle-aged Taoist priest pointed, a piece of incense had been broken, and the sign of the place was - Xiahe Village.
This little fragrance actually shocked the general.
"The big formation..."
The Taoist raised his hand to interrupt and said calmly.
"It's just a small position, it has nothing to do with the overall situation."
When the general heard this, he breathed a sigh of relief. He thought for a while and asked tentatively.
"Then, ignore it?"
The middle-aged Taoist priest frowned and thought for a while.
"It would be fine if it was done by a passing mage who is not discerning. What I am afraid of is that the thieves in the city are deliberately destroying my position..."
The general nodded, turned around and shouted loudly outside the tent.
"Zhang Zhihu."
"The general is here!"
"Send a capable team to Xiahe Village, but all suspicious people including monks and Taoists will be sent to me!"
The voice outside the tent asked hesitantly:
"What if the other party resists?"
The general raised his eyebrows, and was about to blurt out the bloody word "kill". Then he glanced at the middle-aged Taoist priest, thinking that he was also a Taoist priest, so he couldn't say "kill", so he replied a little impatiently:
"Then banish him from the neighborhood."
"Wait a minute! General, don't worry about Pindao."
Just as the man outside the tent was about to accept the order, the middle-aged Taoist priest suddenly spoke. He sat back on the futon, his face gloomy under the flickering candlelight.
"Since you have committed such a heinous crime, why should you care about the lives of just one or two of your comrades?"
"There are many deceitful people among the monks who are good at illusions. If you encounter them..."
"Don't ask why, just kill him!"
