Chapter 376 Ash (4000 words)

Seeing that the man was still very stiff, Chu Dong kicked the soldier on the leg and made him squat down. Then he took out a small porcelain bottle from his arms and sprinkled something strange in the wound. A pile of small bugs, the effect is not bad, and the bleeding is stopped immediately.

  Chu Dong pressed on his shoulder and asked strangely: "How did you find us? We should be very cautious."

The soldier also knew that the gap in strength was huge, but he had his own pride, and seeing that the man in front of him was so soft-hearted, he must have no problem if he didn't say it, but soon he felt something was wrong, and there seemed to be a lot in his body. Things were crawling, and they were running wildly under their skin, itching unbearably.

And the seemingly kind-hearted man was still beside him and explained thoughtfully: "Don't catch them~ It will stimulate them, these bugs crawl into your body along your flesh and blood, and slowly devour your flesh, internal organs and brain, but they It can also treat trauma, it's cute, do you still like it?"

The man cried out in horror: "No, don't let them crawl again! We came here only when we saw the red light, and the red light proved that someone came out. We came to collect the corpse, and the people who came out were half dead. , we didn't expect you to be alive! I'm just an ordinary soldier, I don't know anything!"

Chu Dong glanced at his specially-made bow and arrows and a whole basket of broken arrows, and said meaningfully: "You don't seem to be simple, although the status of a soldier is not as high as that of a warlock, it is also an imperial court. People who focus on training, and you actually know how to use the local method to seal the ears with yellow mud to reduce the influence of the art, you are very experienced."

  These soldiers are similar to the special forces in the imperial court, and their background, talent and strength must be excellent.

When he saw that the bugs had spread from his shoulders to his neck, and were about to crawl into his head, he completely broke down. Now when he looked at the man's smile, he only felt a chill on his back, but he didn't feel any kindness, so he He said a lot of things that he thought was important.

"We came here specifically to kill wandering souls. Every ten days, a group of wandering souls will emerge here, and we are responsible for killing them. Now that the main force has been transferred, only a thousand people from our barracks will stay in place. Don't move, the others are new, I said everything, please, stop them!"

   "That's natural, talk well, we are still friends, sit down, I'll take care of your wounds, chatter~"

The man was relieved, and the strange feeling disappeared, but when he saw that Chu Dong was only applying medicine to the wound without cutting open his body to dig out the worm, he became more and more afraid, and he asked in a trembling voice: " Big, big brother, I still have a daughter, I really don’t want to die, can you get the bug out?”

Chu Dong patted the man on the shoulder, "Don't worry, you don't have any bugs in your body, what you saw just now was just an illusion, I haven't even tried to force you to confess, I won't do anything to you if you don't say anything. Sample."

The man touched his body up and down, and found that the feeling just now disappeared completely, and he didn't feel any foreign body or pain. He scratched his head in embarrassment, and looked at the ten taels of silver that Chu Dong handed over to him suddenly. A little embarrassed.

Not much money of 10 taels of silver is just a month's salary, but this attitude is quite useful to him. These martial arts soldiers are often unpopular. Pure warriors don't like martial arts, and they are very repelled. He was a little flattered when the extremely powerful warlock treated him like this.

So he immediately changed the subject and started chatting with Chu Dong: "My name is Zhou Nan, we really don't have any grudges, but this is not the emperor's fate, but I'm still a prisoner, it doesn't matter if I tell you something, You better go quickly, someone should come later."

   "No hurry, talk first, it's not too late to run after you come."

Zhou Nan thinks about it too. It seems that people don't need to be too scared. This is the first time he has seen a warlock with such strength, but at this moment, he suddenly pointed to the position where Chu Dong was fighting just now and whispered a warning: "Broken! Li Lin wakes up. It's gone!"

Chu Dong glanced behind the stone. The military officer who was knocked unconscious by him had already woken up. The martial artist's physical fitness was still good. He woke up within a few minutes after being punched so hard, and he knew that he could not win. Chu Dong went so far as to trouble Li Hongxian.

   That Li Lin scolded as he ran: "Stinky boy! I advise you to take it easy, or your friend will be killed by me!"

  Puff! Before the man could be arrogant, he was punched into the ground by Li Hongxian, who suddenly stood up. The head smashed into the soil like an ostrich, and then Li Hongxian lay back on the ground with a weak face, lying still on the ground. Forgot to scold: "I'm just weak and uninjured, and still hit me?"

Li Hongxian's current body should be somewhat similar to a damaged soul. Chu Dong has experienced it twice. If the body cannot receive the signal from the soul, it will gradually weaken. , but the upper limit of power is still unaffected. At most, the response is much slower, and the force is not smooth.

   But strangely speaking, Li Hongxian has no soul, how could he be damaged?

   So Chu Dong guessed that his weakness should be related to those souls. Because Li Hongxian couldn't see souls, they kept crossing each other while walking. You bumped into me and I bumped into you, and no one could see who.

But this kind of mutual crossing may have affected Li Hongxian's Pure Yang Mantra, causing some problems with his body, especially the increase in the number of Po around midnight, which caused his body to develop symptoms. After all, his Pure Yang Mantra is also related to Po. .

And Chu Dong is fine because he can occasionally feel the existence of the soul, so he will subconsciously avoid bumping into them. The red lantern can disperse the soul may be a kind of protection, the red light is not to illuminate the way, but to prevent them from being penetrated and killed by the soul.

   "Hey, speaking of lanterns, where are my lanterns?"

  Chu Dong clearly remembered that he put the lantern beside Li Hongxian, but when he looked at it again, there was nothing there.

Everything he has experienced today is beyond his cognition. So far, Chu Dong has never encountered such an existence in which a physical village appears and disappears in an instant. The similar hallucinations he has seen before are not real, or are unrealistic like ghosts and mythical creatures. exist.

  It takes a lot of effort to move the entity. The five ghosts can move a small object and it can take more than ten years of life. It can be seen that the price of this technique is huge.

   Zhou Nan said: "Don't look for it, if you can't find it, the lantern can only send you here, and once you leave the range of these ghost grasses, it will disappear.

You are not the first group of people to enter that place. There are often warlocks who go in. The ones who go in are too many and few come out. Most of the people who can come out rely on the red lanterns. It’s just that you can stand firm when you come out like you. seen. "

Looking at the approaching torches in the distance, Chu Dong knew that he couldn't ask any more questions. He told Zhou Nan that he would come back to him tomorrow and would give him 100 taels as a thank you gift. All he needed was to tell Chu Dong something about himself. Knowing things, Zhou Nan readily agreed, and even told Chu Dong the location.

A soldier like Zhou Nan is stationed in one place all the year round. He only desires two things, one is spiritual and the other is material. Spiritually, he is eager to be recognized, because he has never really been on the battlefield, and he has learned from some soldiers. Things that shouldn't have been learned, some very superficial techniques, which made them unpopular in the army, not recognized by martial artists, and looked down on by warlocks, and some were not like them.

Chu Dong's few words made him feel like a spring breeze. He felt that Chu Dong was having a very equal conversation with him. It was this feeling that he had never experienced before. He even took the initiative to remind Chu Dong that it was time to leave. It's getting more and more dead for people's minds.

   In terms of material, if he has enough money, he can go home early and marry a wife. This place doesn't shit, who wants to stay? One hundred taels is not a small number for him, it is his half-year's income.

  Chu Dong helped Li Hongxian up and left. Before he left, he pulled that Li Lin out of the ground. Li Hongxian's strength was not well controlled. Even if he woke up, he would have to straighten his bones.

  This place is remote and it is unrealistic to want to go back to the city, so Chu Dong found a random place and hid in the grass and prepared to rest directly here. But just when Chu Dong put Li Hongxian on the ground, his eyes suddenly saw a thin layer of white-yellow powder on Li Hongxian's shoulder. Chu Dong glanced at his shoulder, and the thin naked eye could hardly see it. The fabric of Li Hongxian's clothes is black and smooth, so it is more obvious.

  【Memory recall, comparison, no powder before entering the village】

  【These powders build up slowly over three hours】

Chu Dong scraped the powder together, and then checked it carefully on his body. He found that there was a little bit of hair on his shoulders. The whole part was very even and fell from the sky, and it began to appear from the moment he entered the village. .

   "The amount is too small, what is this?"

  Li Hongxian supported her body and looked at the powder with some hesitation: "It's a bit like ashes."

   "Are the ashes this color? And the ashes won't be so delicate?"

Although the ashes are called ashes, they are actually bone scum. Even modern crematoriums burn bone slag. Large bones such as neck bones and even spines cannot be broken. The bones are broken into pieces and thrown into a basin the size of one person. Finally, some bone residues are selected by the family and put into the urn. The rest is garbage and disposed of by the crematorium.

   And the bone is burnt, the whole is gray-white, the main component is calcium carbonate, but the powder is light yellow.

Li Hongxian explained: "It's not the ashes that have been burned, but the ashes that have been ground from the bones of living people. The so-called smashing of bones and ashes is not just talk, it's a very ruthless evil method. It can make people lose their minds, and it will be extremely painful, and the ashes produced in this way are this color.

In the early years, I met a couple with a son and a couple who had set back their child. I didn't understand at first why they hated a ten-year-old child so much. They were cut, and neither of them had the slightest remorse.

It wasn't until later that they found out that the child's body was occupied by an evil spirit and tortured the couple for ten years. They were taking revenge, but what they defeated was their son. The evil spirit was unharmed, even though he was given to me by me. I was crushed, but I've never been happy about it. I still remember the color of the ashes very clearly. I can only say that they are very similar, but I am not sure. "

It could be seen that Li Hongxian had a hard time on this matter, so Chu Dong didn't ask any more questions. Li Hongxian's whole experience was not taught by others, but accumulated little by little. He came out of Li's house at the age of twenty-eight and lived in Li Hongxian. I have been wandering around in the arena for more than ten years, and I have seen too much.

Chu Dong kept this matter in mind, but there were not enough clues for the time being. Everything was fragmented. Why did Zou Yan have two? Why did the real villages appear and disappear? Something he didn't expect.

It was the hottest time in late summer, so there was no need to worry about being cold at night, and the strange thing was that there was not a trace of mosquitoes in the grass. Chu Dong also took a special look at this grass, which looked a bit like wormwood that had been dyed. Overall black.

Chu Dong observed Li Hongxian for another hour and found that his body did not fall asleep until after the improvement. When the two woke up the next morning, Li Hongxian had completely recovered. , Li Hongxian is still embarrassed, because he feels that he has done a good job in intelligence work, but in fact he didn't ask the right idea.

Chu Dong didn't say anything. The two went to the barracks' kitchen to eat breakfast. The two of them were indeed a little arrogant. They found the kitchen and stunned the chef and started eating. They didn't give the barracks any face at all. The military camp has already built houses, and tents are no longer used. After all, it is a long-term garrison here.

After eating and taking the breakfast, the two went to find Zhou Nan. Zhou Nan did not go out to train a person in the barracks because he was injured at work. Chu Dong and Li Hongxian pushed the door and walked in swaggeringly, making Zhou Nan look stupid. .

Chu Dong patted Zhou Nan on the shoulder and stuffed a 500 tael bank note into his hand. He originally wanted to give it to 100, but he found that the smallest denomination on his body was 500. Huang Yuantian often had nothing to do with it. Chu Dong rarely looked at his stack of money, and he didn't pay much attention to it because he didn't spend much money.

  Chu Dong said with a kind face: "Brother's shoulders are all right, come and chat with us, rest assured that no one will find out."

Zhou Nan calmly handed down the bank note and started chatting with Chu Dong and the two. This barracks was set up here for 1,200 people, headed by a **** who taught them some superficial techniques. It is with the help of some utensils, and it is not particularly complicated. These cannot even be arithmetical and can only be said to be earthwork.

   (end of this chapter)