In fact, the moment Li Miao snatched my dagger, I was a little stunned.
But he quickly reacted.
I felt a little guilty, but also very moved...
It's too late to say it, but it's soon!
The moment before Li Miao stabbed the evil cultivator in the heart with a dagger, the lights in the cabin went out.
The room became dark.
"not good!"
My heart skipped a beat and I felt like something was going to go wrong.
But Li Miao's dagger had already stabbed hard into the heart of the evil cultivator. At such a close distance, it doesn't even take half a second. There can't really be any changes, right?
Poof!
The sound of a sharp instrument piercing an object was heard.
But it was obvious that it did not sound like flesh and blood.
At the same time, we heard a rustling sound not far ahead. Then the door of the cabin was knocked open, and the moonlight came in.
A black figure rolled out and crawled out, staggering, looking very embarrassed.
He couldn't help but make a heavy gasping sound of pain from his mouth.
Li Miao and I took advantage of the moonlight coming in from outside the door and looked down.
What I saw lying on the ground was a strange human form!
It looked like it was made of stuffed straw and sawdust, and it was wearing rags - it looked like it was made of many shrouds spliced together.
There is also a piece of cloth covering the round head, with human facial features painted with red cinnabar, which looks very weird.
Under the moonlight, it showed a strange and gloomy atmosphere.
It completely replaced that evil cultivator!
His waist was tied up with a black dog hair rope, and his thigh was pierced with a bamboo pole.
The sharp dagger in Li Miao's hand had already penetrated the straw cloth man's heart.
The blade was completely submerged, leaving only the handle exposed.
"This is... the Puppet Substitution Technique? This is a very sophisticated technique that is extremely difficult to perform and is on the verge of being lost. I didn't expect this evil cultivator to know how to do this!"
I was a little surprised.
Even Li Miao probably doesn't know this weird secret technique.
I also heard Master talk about it occasionally when I was chatting with her.
She once encountered an enemy who knew this kind of magic, and it took a lot of effort to kill him!
The puppets used in this stand-in technique are not only very troublesome to make, but also extremely time-consuming.
It is said that the main material needs to be rice straw that has not been harvested by farmers for five years. It can only be dried by the sunset light at the last hour before sunset every day.
It is necessary to continuously use dusk and sunset for 37 and 21 days - and it must be ensured that there are continuous sunny days, and no interruption due to cloudy days or rains, otherwise the success will be in vain.
Then, on the night of the full moon on the fifteenth day of each lunar calendar, these straws are completely spread out under the moonlight to allow them to absorb the essence of the moonlight. After continuing for twelve times a year, the main material for the stand-in puppet is completed.
We also need to find nine different kinds of trees that like to grow in damp and cold places, cut them into wood chips and stuff them into the scarecrow puppet.
Then, he found many shrouds worn by different dead people, cut them and spliced them into clothes for the scarecrow stand-in puppet.
Then he used the quilt he often covered himself with when sleeping to make the face of the scarecrow puppet, and used cinnabar mixed with the blood from his fingertips and the blood from his tongue to draw the facial features.
After such extremely complicated steps, the production of the scarecrow stand-in puppet itself was barely completed. It will also take a long time to be refined with various secret techniques...
After this, the scarecrow stand-in puppet will slowly shrink to the size of a palm and can be placed in a pocket or stored close to the body.
If there is a problem in any of these steps, all the efforts will be in vain!
The specific effect is that with the caster as the center of the circle, you can instantly move to any range within a radius of five meters.
The scarecrow puppet you carry with you will serve as a substitute and stay in place.
And during this process of avatar transfer, the attacker will not discover it.
Very mysterious!
Therefore, this kind of stand-in puppet will be used by some people as a trump card to save their lives, and it can be regarded as one of the means to keep the bottom of the box.
At first I only heard Master talk about it occasionally and felt surprised.
I never expected that this evil cultivator would actually create such a complicated stand-in puppet. And at the last moment, he successfully used it, which ended up being pierced through the heart with a dagger...
But even so, it only allowed the evil cultivator to escape temporarily and escape to the door of the wooden house. He wasn't killed on the spot!
He was seriously injured and his thigh was stabbed through. He must have been very slow to escape.
We may not really have no chance.
"Chase!"
I yelled, and Li Miao and I stood up and ran away at the same time.
While running, I also blew a sharp and penetrating whistle with my mouth - this was also the secret code I had discussed with the five thugs ambushing in the sorghum field.
When I whistle, it’s a signal that they need to rush out to help immediately!
This riverside cabin is not big, so Li Miao and I rushed to the door in a few steps.
As soon as I ran out, I saw a dark figure limping towards the sorghum field through the moonlight in the sky.
I immediately laughed.
"It's the evil cultivator who deserves to die! There are so many roads to run, but he went straight to the sorghum field. This is like throwing himself into a trap."
Although with his current serious injury, he couldn't run away even if he went in another direction.
But it would be a good thing for us to go straight to the sorghum field.
really!
Before the evil cultivator got close to the sorghum field, five burly and strong thugs armed with electric batons emerged from inside and surrounded him.
As soon as he saw something bad, he immediately wanted to change direction and run away.
But it's too late!
The leading brother acted very quickly. He picked up a stone from the ground and hit the evil cultivator.
Whoosh...bang!
The stone was thrown quite accurately and directly hit the wound on his thigh where Li Miao had stabbed him.
He suddenly let out a shrill scream of pain, then fell to the ground and could not get up.
No matter how powerful and weird the evil cultivators are, they are still mortal.
With such a serious injury, he must not be able to run fast.
So he just ran straight into the sorghum field, probably because he wanted to hide himself with the sorghum that was taller than a man, so as to get rid of Li Miao and I's pursuit.
But the evil cultivator didn't expect that I had already made preparations for an ambush...
Li Miao and I were overjoyed when we saw him falling to the ground.
"Brothers, don't be merciful, use the electric baton to shock him hard! The battery is the largest, don't be afraid."
I yelled as I ran over.
I was afraid that these five thugs would not be cruel and would give this evil cultivator a chance to stand up again.
When they heard what I said, they quickly ran up and turned on the electric batons in their hands. They all greeted Xie Xiu lying on the ground...
Sizzle!
I could hear the sound of electricity, and the sound of the evil cultivator screaming again after being electrocuted.
It's a bit miserable.
But the other party is a bad person who does all kinds of evil, and of course he is not worthy of sympathy at all.
Li Miao and I ran over and looked at the half-dead evil cultivator, feeling relieved.
He was already frothing at the mouth and twitching on the ground.
The young man who was the leader of the thugs looked at me.
"Brother Wu, he must not be able to get up. Our electric batons are modified and have greater power than ordinary ones. They can even electrocute sheep. If you use five of them at the same time, he will definitely be dead."
I smiled and nodded, bowing my hands to them.
"Okay, thank you all for tonight. I will tell Mr. Yao..."
Before I finished speaking, something unexpected happened again!
A heart-stopping sound came from the dark sorghum field ahead.
It’s the Buddha’s name!
"Amitabha, that's good, that's good. In this world of cause and effect, it's better to resolve enemies than to make enemies. Why do you need to kill all the donors?"
With this weird Buddhist sound, I felt as if my heart skipped a few beats, and I felt a slight numbness all over my body. The muscles were inexplicably stiff!
"Can't you move your body?"
I was a little shocked.
Li Miao next to her was obviously the same.
As for the five young men holding electric batons, their whole bodies became weak and they fell to the ground on the spot. The electric baton in his hand also fell to the ground with a crackle...
"What's going on? What happened to our bodies?"
"How terrible! What kind of evil situation is this?"
"Is this evil magic?"
"My God, you won't die here, right?"
They all collapsed on the ground, unable to move their bodies, but they were still able to speak normally. So everyone panicked.
Li Miao and I looked ahead in surprise.
Only a figure was seen, illuminated by the cold silver moonlight, slowly walking out of the sorghum field.
He took one step at a time, very carefully, and walked very slowly.
This is not to show off, but he probably can't walk fast at all!
Because I can feel that the "qi" radiating from his body is very powerful, but it is also in a state of violent fluctuations and consumption at this time.
It is clear!
Casting this extremely powerful technique, which can immobilize us through sound from a distance of at least seven or eight meters, must also consume a lot of money.
As my master said, everything in the world is conserved - the more powerful the spell, the greater the consumption!
"Damn it! Why did I see so many evil spells tonight? First they were stand-in puppets, and now they are immobilized by the Buddha's name..."
Li Miao struggled fiercely, but his body could only tremble slightly.
When the person who suddenly appeared slowly walked up to us, I could see his appearance clearly through the moonlight.
He is indeed a monk!
Naturally, he has no hair, his head is bare, and his earlobes are very large and long.
He was wearing a gray monk's robe dotted with some strange red cloud-like patterns.
There was a string of large beads hanging around his neck, and a string of small beads in his hand, and he was looking at us with a smile.
I felt inexplicably that this monk looked familiar, but I couldn't remember where I had seen him before... I was sure I didn't recognize him!
But why is there an odd feeling that is both strange and familiar at the same time?
The monk looked down at the evil cultivator who was lying on the ground foaming at the mouth, shook his head and said.
"Look, I told you to be careful. There are some powerful characters hiding in Fubei County. You don't believe it. But we really ended up in this situation tonight, right?"
The evil cultivator calmed down, snorted coldly, and did not answer.
But at this time, I finally fully reacted!
I remembered!
I remembered why I felt an inexplicable sense of familiarity even though I clearly didn’t know him or had seen him before...
