Chapter 509 Deadline "What on earth is it?" The three of them stared at the insect in Yin Xiu's hand, unable to determine what it was for a moment. Because its body is as brown and red as an earthworm, and it is covered in mucus like a loach, but its "mouth" is full of tiny teeth, densely arranged together. Yin Xiu looked into the mouth and felt that it seemed to be similar to the scene in the white ape's mouth just now. It was the same. It looked like a mine full of crystals. One look at it and it made people feel that the whole person was about to be sucked into the abyss. Ma Xiaoyu happened to be next to him, and when she saw this scene, she felt goosebumps all over her body and her scalp was numb. "Have you ever seen this thing?" Yin Xiu looked at her. Ma Xiaoyu shook her head like a rattle, "Looking at this thing for one more time makes me feel like I'm going to have a nightmare. How could I have seen it before?" Liu Banxian on the side came closer and even reached out to touch it. His hands were full of fishy mucus. "What do you think?" Yin Xiu asked him. "I can't tell you my opinion, but this thing looks black in my eyes. It's obviously some kind of monster or evil spirit."
Liu Banxian bent down and washed his hands in the water, and murmured: "I heard people say that there is a mysterious and evil head-lowering technique in Nanyang. The head-lowering master can control some dead corpses to do things for themselves by lowering their heads. When the Gu is at work, the dead will move as freely as they did in life, and even become more radiant and powerful. Those behead masters manipulated the dead people and asked them to travel at night to make money for themselves. But as long as the lowering of the head is released, the flesh and skin of the manipulated people will immediately turn into a pool of blood, leaving only bones. " After Liu Banxian finished speaking, he couldn't help but feel a chill running down his spine. He picked up the paper fan and scratched his back, and then said: "But this is just my guess, I can't say for sure." "But what you said seems to be pretty much the same." Yin Xiu recalled the feeling of the sword piercing the white ape's abdominal cavity just now. It seemed that what he stabbed was not a strong and strong body, but just a hollow drum with a skin on the outside. As he spoke, he picked up the Wind-Mocking Sword and gently sliced open the white ape's body soaked in the water. The originally powerful and indestructible body shrank in just a moment, giving people a feeling of weakness and ruin. As the mocking wind sword slowly opened the body surface, the secret inside the white ape was finally exposed as Yin Xiu thought. Muscles are muscles, bones are bones, white and red are the same as normal. However, what connects and penetrates these tissues and parts are those black veins, which are not like blood vessels, but more like trees drilling into the mud. The roots are twisted and ferocious, with the smell of decay. "It's a [death line]." Ma Xiaoyu said. "Dead line?" Yin Xiu was a little curious, "You mean you recognize what this is?" "I didn't know it until I opened it." Ma Xiaoyu touched the earrings and said, "You also know that the minds and spells of those in Malaysia are different from ours. They only study two things all year round, one is how to make people lie down, and the other is how to make people lie down to stand up again. These people only compete with each other to see whose magic is more sinister and sinister, and who is more likely to be struck by lightning.
Therefore, our Ma family Taoist priests, that is, the previous generation of Ma family Celestial Masters and several aunts and eldest sisters in the family, often encounter requests for help from local Tang people. Maybe he will take action from our Ma family. So every time they come back, they always bring back some weird things that can't be dealt with on the spot. For example, the little ghosts raised by the descending master, children and girls possessed by evil gods, and certain artifacts that must be handled with caution will be brought back. For a while, our Ma family became a shelter for these evil spirits in a sense. Although it was not so sinister, it was still intimidating to ordinary people. " "Wouldn't it be troublesome to be your neighbor?" Yin Xiu asked. "No way." Ma Xiaoyu blinked. “We live on the edge of the town in Malaysia, living together as a group, with mountains behind us and the sea on the left, and there are no other residents nearby. The men of the Ma family are responsible for carrying on the family line, while the women are responsible for slaying demons and making money. This has always been the case. This is different from the customs of people in most places, so we are also very special in the local area. Except for the occasional ceremonial walk during holidays, people generally don't interact with us. We don't need to interact with the locals. The women of the Ma family seldom go out except when they are fighting demons. " "Then if someone wants to marry a woman from the Ma family, wouldn't it be very troublesome?" Yin Xiu asked. Ma Xiaoyu glanced at him, and there was a sense of pride in Yin Xiu's eyes. "No trouble, let's get married! We can pay the dowry here." Liu Banxian stood aside, his feet still soaked in the cold stream, and finally couldn't listen anymore. "Ahem, you two, if you want to get married or marry Qin Jinzhi, you can ask me to check their horoscopes and zodiac signs. Then I will find a good and auspicious day, set the time, give the betrothal gift, and the matchmaker will get married. Enter the door with gongs and drums, worship heaven and earth, bridal chamber, bridal chamber, bridal chamber. Even if you like Western style, you can also ask Father Benjamin. Let's find a good and auspicious day, play gongs and drums, ah no, find a pipe band to play, baptize, recite vows, exchange rings, kiss, bridal chamber, bridal chamber, bridal chamber, The bridal chamber. But right now, national affairs are at hand. Can we put our children’s personal relationships aside for now? Let's discuss the matter at hand? " Ma Xiaoyu's face turned red immediately, "Well, I just told my sisters and their experiences, just to answer his questions." "Actually, that's not what I'm asking." Yin Xiu sniffed, "A friend of mine had such a question, and I asked it for him." Liu Banxian looked at the two of them and said, "Whether it's a friend, a sister or an aunt, Miss Ma, can you tell me about that [deadline] first?" "it is good." Ma Xiaoyu pushed a strand of hair behind her ears and cleared her throat. “Didn’t my aunts and sisters bring back unfinished limbs from time to time? One time, they brought back a baby. The baby's parents had been killed by the evil head-dropping master, and he was the only one left in the family, and he was also planted with a terrible head-dropping disease by the evil head-dropping master. The baby was very small, probably only a few months old. Several talismans were affixed to his body to drive away and control the evil spirits in him, but it didn't seem to have much effect. Why do you say it has little effect? Because when I got closer, I saw that the baby who couldn't even turn over suddenly jumped up like a cat, landed on its hands and feet, arched its body, crawled very fast, had red eyes, and made a terrible sound at the same time. , rushing with all his strength, fighting against the talisman on his body.
As soon as the baby broke free from the shackles of the spell, he immediately rushed towards me. If my sister hadn't taken action to hold him down, the consequences would have been really disastrous. But at that time, neither my sisters, aunts, nor the contemporary heavenly masters of our Ma family seemed to be able to get rid of the evil spirits in the baby, so after a few days, the baby finally... They were sad for many days because of this. After that, he was not buried in the ground or cremated. Instead, he was raised up and soaked in a glass jar. He hoped that one day there would be a way to drive away the evil spirits from his body so that he could reincarnate cleanly. I once entered the secret room and saw the existence of a dead thread in the body in the glass jar. It was then that I understood that the death line is a terrible trace that represents restraint and erosion. Once it appears, it will extend and develop uncontrollably until the host is completely reduced to some kind of puppet or dies. In fact, my sister later investigated this thing, and we still don’t know the reason why we got this kind of head-down infection. Maybe it was directly implanted by the head-down master, or maybe it was through a wound, or it was just touched by hand, and it was parasitized and infected. Infect. " When Liu Banxian heard this, he immediately put his hand into the stream and scrubbed it, as if he wanted to take off the skin of his hand. Then he looked at Yin Xiu, "Brother Yin, why don't you wash up?" Yin Xiu first threw the bug aside, then showed him her hands and breathed a sigh of relief, "I'm wearing gloves, I'm not afraid." "But, I think you seemed to have wiped your face with your hands just now." Liu Banxian said worriedly. "Which one? This hand?" Yin Xiu touched his face. "..." thump! Yin Xiu also plunged most of his body into the water, spit out a series of bubbles before emerging from the water, and threw his gloves into the water. After stroking her wet hair, Yin Xiu asked Ma Xiaoyu: "So, it is impossible for this insect to exist in nature, but it is the product of some kind of head-lowering technique?" "I should say it's the source." Ma Xiaoyu said seriously: "Perhaps without this bug, the Head-Lowering Technique cannot be performed, so this bug is the poison in the Head-Lowering Technique, not because of the Head-Lowering Technique." "So what you're saying is that this is definitely not a product of nature, but caused by the head-lowering technique? Someone performed the head-lowering technique on these apes and implanted the bug into their bodies to control them?" "It's entirely possible." Ma Xiaoyu nodded, "Although there is no evidence, if such terrifying creatures really exist in nature, with the habits of such creatures, their footprints should not have been all over the Baiyun Mountains long ago, and even use the Baiyun Mountains as a base to radiate to all directions. , spread out? But since we entered the mountain, we have only seen one such ape in this valley, which shows that this insect may not have such terrible ability to parasitize and reproduce. I think if someone hadn't been breeding them, the bugs in these monkeys would have become extinct long ago. " "So evil?" Liu Banxian put his hand on Yin Xiu's shoulder, "But how can any head-lowering master use the head-lowering technique on animals? I think those people are only capable of controlling a cat or a chicken. How can they control such a big monkey? What to do?" "Is it possible that the group hired by the White Lotus Sect did it?" Yin Xiu dodged Liu Banxian's hand calmly, "I remember someone said that among the people gathered by the White Lotus Sect, there is a sect that trains monkeys. They pretend to be street performers on weekdays. When it comes to fighting, they The trained monkeys then become effective helpers, helping them kill people and steal goods." "I've heard of this sect." Liu Banxian was also impressed, "But the monkeys they trained only reached as high as a human's shoulder. How can a monkey like this one, more than three meters tall, hold such a Guan Dao, and have such terrifying fighting power? How can anyone say that The monkey has the final say, it’s hard to say.”
"Yes, it is so powerful. How thick a whip and how big a gong does the monkey trainer need to bring?" "Well, in my opinion, even if you kill a whole cabin of chickens in front of such a beast, this monkey won't even tremble." "It does not make sense?" Ma Xiaoyu rolled her eyes and said, "Can you get down to business and analyze where these bugs come from?" "Alas, no comment." Yin Xiu looked at the ape's body in the water again, and felt that there were more puzzling things. Before entering the mountain, Hai Dongqing and Wei Dahong did not tell them such strange things. After all, during the previous trip, they gathered around the campfire almost every night and told stories about their experiences and some embellished stories. However, no one has ever talked about the white ape and the scary, weird long worm in the mountains. After a long while, he sighed: "It's a pity that brat Hai Dongqing is not here, otherwise maybe we can know some of the ins and outs. After all, that guy is also weird. Maybe he likes to play with bugs on weekdays?" …… ah! Autumn! ! Hai Dongqing sneezed loudly, almost spitting out his internal organs from his throat. "Hey, do you think we are here for an outing? Are you afraid of attracting those beasts here again?" Ren Qi stared at him, still holding two green and red swords in his hands, guarding the surroundings. Under his feet were the corpses of two huge white apes, both of which were decapitated by him with a sword, leaving a gap the size of a watermelon. "There's a bastard who's thinking of me." Hai Dongqing wiped his nose. "To be honest, I'm not afraid of drawing them here. These two apes are just a matter of one or two swords in front of you." "What if it's a group? Just like those mandrills we met last time, they were like fruits falling from the trees. Dozens of them would jump down at once. I'm fine with it myself, but I can't guarantee that I can protect you. Don't be so red when the time comes. The snake hasn't appeared yet, so you first..." Ren Qi stopped here and didn't say any more. Because since they separated from Yin Xiu and the others and the two of them walked deeper and deeper into the Changbai Mountains, Hai Dongqing's face became increasingly ugly. His face was still so handsome and young, but his complexion was very unhealthy. He looked as pale as if he was seriously ill. Even his thin lips began to lose their color, showing a sick look. Ren Qi gradually felt that Hai Dongqing's aura started to become weaker from within. However, he was neither internally injured nor had any obvious external injuries on his body. It seemed that this discordant morbidity came from the weakening of his own vitality. Just like a towering tree, its disease is not in the branches or leaves, but in the roots buried deep in the soil. It seems impossible to figure out whether Hai Dongqing's weakness is caused by some kind of disease or some undetectable physiological defect. Somehow, Ren Qi suddenly felt that Hai Dongqing might not survive this winter.
Hai Dongqing knew nothing about Ren Qi's thoughts, because this lonely swordsman always kept his words to himself and remained silent. In other words, he didn't think much and said even less, that's all. The two of them had no personal relationship, let alone any time to chat. After a pause, Hai Dongqing wiped the sweat from his forehead. "It's just a few big monkeys. No matter how terrifying the beast is, I have never seen it before. Don't you feel it too? These monkeys seem to have been bred by someone. If you want to know, we can just follow the smell and take a look." (End of this chapter)