It was later than the fat man had predicted. When we arrived at the foot of Mount Bodhi, the sun had almost set."Look, are we going to spend the night here?" The fat man rubbed his hands and asked Yin Xiu cautiously. At the beginning, relying on his weight, he was fat and big-eared and was of course the leader of the team. However, after Yin Xiu appeared, the power and responsibility of making decisions naturally fell into his hands. Who told the fat guy to feel he couldn't speak anymore? "Are you looking for death?" Yin Xiu glanced at him and frightened the fat man so much that he shrank his neck and dared not to respond. "Let's take a look. If we rest here, won't we become a buffet for zombies?" Sighing, Yin Xiu looked around and found that the surrounding area was almost an empty flat land. In this case, if the zombies came, so many people would have nowhere to run. "How about we go up a little further?" Ma Xiaoyu saw what he was thinking and pointed to a higher place.
"Ah." Yin Xiu nodded, and then instructed the fat man: "Before it gets dark, send a few people out to find a cave that is spacious enough for everyone to stay in." "it is good." The fat man immediately called on a few nimble people in the team to start exploring the way. After a while, someone finally came running back excitedly, panting. "over there." He pointed to the back of a forest and said, "There is a cave this big..." As the other party exaggeratedly moved his hands apart, Yin Xiu nodded with satisfaction, "Let's go." Everyone jumped for joy, except the white peacock, who was still standing there in a daze. "what happened?" Yin Xiu walked over and saw that she was a little dazed. He put his hand on her forehead and squeezed her palm. "You don't have a fever either." "You can't touch here, try touching your chest." "Right." Yin Xiu stretched out his hand and suddenly realized that it was Ma Xiaoyu's voice, and he stopped. After a while, he turned around and said with a smile: "How about you come?" "Do you really want to try it?" Ma Xiaoyu rolled her eyes at him and said, "No one asked you to do that, but you took advantage of me. Isn't that enough?" "You should check on her first." Yin Xiu changed the subject, "Could it be that he is possessed by evil spirits?"
"You are possessed!" The white peacock came to his senses and beads of sweat appeared on his forehead. Picking up her sleeve, she wiped her forehead and said, "At that moment just now, I suddenly had a bad premonition, as if something terrible was going to happen." "What premonition? What kind of thing?" Yin Xiu asked her. "How do I know this?" The white peacock felt a lingering fear, but he could no longer remember what he had just foreseen. Seeing her like this, Yin Xiu thought that the white peacock was just too tired from traveling and was in a trance for a moment. So he just said to her: "Go ahead, you can have a good sleep in the cave." The white peacock nodded and followed the crowd, treating the strange feeling just now as some kind of illusion or a fleeting phantom. After entering the cave, as she sat down, the strange feeling she had felt before disappeared without a trace. It was already dark by this time, and she was already very sleepy before she had her meal, and her eyelids slowly closed. Before going to bed, she only vaguely heard Yin Xiu talking to the fat man. "Hey, Fatty, we're going up the mountain tomorrow. We need to arrange for someone to keep watch tonight. I'm a very loyal person. You keep watch for the first half of the night, and wake me up for the second half. Do you understand?" "Understood, we..." The white peacock's eyes went dark. When she regained consciousness, she opened her eyes and saw darkness all around. "Don't make a sound." That was Ma Xiaoyu's voice. The hot air sprayed on her face, making her feel itchy. Bai Kongque was suddenly frightened and broke out in a cold sweat. She understood that something must have happened that caused Ma Xiaoyu to be so close to her. In the darkness, she also heard other breathing sounds, and everyone seemed to be holding their breath and dared not speak loudly. The white peacock squinted and looked outside, and a blazing fire came into her sight. on fire? This was her first reaction. However, if it was just a fire, the people here would definitely not react like this. When she calmed down and looked again, she could see the hideous faces under the torch. Especially the leader, who was bald, tall and strong, with a scar running from his forehead to under his chin. He held a torch in one hand and a long sword in the other, and was squinting into the cave. Behind the bald man was a crowd of people, each of them wearing clothes that looked as if they had never been washed and were covered with dust and other dirt.
However, the weapons in their hands were carefully maintained, and they flashed coldly in the firelight, shining on everyone's faces like frost and snow. At the feet of the bald man, there were two bodies, one male and one female. White Peacock recognized that they were the two young people from the previous team. The man had been stabbed several times and his head was almost cut in half. The woman had been stripped of her clothes, her hair was disheveled, and her body was covered with scars. That is, Acheng and Xiaorou. The white peacock widened his eyes and finally remembered where that ominous feeling came from. Because she had seen it before, but somehow she had erased the memory from her mind. When I was young, outside the Miao village, there were those people who roamed around at night, riding on horses, holding torches, holding all kinds of weapons in their hands, coming in wreaking havoc, burning and killing everything, and then leaving after sweeping everything away. They were like demons - bandits. The fat man and several other men, holding wooden sticks or kitchen knives in their hands, surrounded Yin Xiu, waiting for his orders. Yin Xiu glanced at the two bodies on the ground with an expressionless face. "It's a chaotic world now. It's bad enough that zombies are biting people everywhere. Do we have to burn, kill and loot at this time?" The bald man chuckled and stepped on Xiaorou's white back. "Isn't a chaotic time a good time to kill and rob? Speaking of me, if I don't kill someone or play with women for a day, I can't help but feel itchy and like there are bugs gnawing at my bones, just like those people who smoke opium, you know? It's so uncomfortable, so uncomfortable, it's driving me crazy! ! " As he said this, he glanced at the couple on the ground again. "This young couple is unlucky. They were hiding here peacefully, and I couldn't find them for a while. But they had to run to the woods to be affectionate. They couldn't control their anger. It just so happened that we loved to help people relieve their anger, so we helped them." Yin Xiu remembered what Ah Cheng had said before, that Xiao Rou was already two months pregnant and it was inevitable that she would vomit acid and feel uncomfortable. Probably in order not to disturb others, they ran outside to get some fresh air in the middle of the night. Perhaps they would never have thought that they did not encounter zombies, but instead ran into bandits. If she fell into the hands of zombies, she would have suffered a quick death. But if she had met bandits, the scars on Xiaorou's body would have reflected the tragedy she had experienced in such a short period of time. Yin Xiu sighed, "He is still running around in troubled times, harming others and himself. His death is not unjust." "Oh?" The bald man touched his head and felt quite amused. "I thought you were going to help them get revenge." "What revenge? People are dead. Will they be resurrected after revenge? If I kill you, will there be no more bad people in the world? Besides, I have other things to do. I don't have time to do unnecessary things." Yin Xiu's eyes were cold. "Upholding justice and eradicating evil are things that only heroes who want to die will do. I don't care about that." "He is also a person who lives freely and soberly." The bald man smiled and said, “People like you can live long in this chaotic world.
In the past, when there was a famine, there was a kind-hearted man who chanted Buddhist scriptures. He took in the refugees and thought about doing good deeds to accumulate virtue. Do you know what happened? The refugees entered his home, ate his food, gained strength, and robbed his house. They hung the head of this kind man on the beam. He died a quick death, but his wife and daughter suffered miserably. They were tortured beyond recognition by those beasts. It really makes me want to vomit just looking at it, hahaha." Yin Xiu seemed not to have heard what he said, and just gestured with her hand, saying, "Money is useless now. We still have some food, so just take some if you want. As for the rest, there are only a few of us here, so I'm fine with you if you want to fight." But this won't do you any good, why don't you just go your separate ways and pretend you never met each other, how about that? " "You're obviously a smart guy, but you're not a good guy!" The bald man twitched his nose and his face turned slightly red. "I can already smell the sweet scent of a woman." Hearing this, Ma Xiaoyu and Bai Kongque looked at each other, then glanced behind them, and both read murderous intent in each other's eyes. As long as the bandits come in, no one here will survive, and each one will be more miserable than the other. Ma Xiaoyu loosened her hands, shook her sleeves, and grabbed the green-faced evil ghost mask with red eyes in her hands. There was also a faintly visible snake on the white peacock's hand. While they were preparing to take action, Yin Xiu had already placed his hand on Izumi Ichimonji. "We are going to the Thousand Buddha Temple, please don't block the way or get in the way." "Thousand Buddha Temple?" The bald man suddenly sneered, "Are you talking about the temple on the mountain that doesn't have much money?" He waved his hand and heard a mocking laugh behind him. Immediately, someone threw out several strings of bloody Buddhist beads, which fell to the ground. "We just came down from the mountains. Damn, they are all stupid bald guys. My knife almost broke their bones." Upon hearing the news, someone in the cave immediately started crying. After coming here with so much trouble, I originally thought that I could seek refuge in the Thousand Buddha Temple the next day, but I didn't expect that this group of bandits had already looted the temple. If this were the case, their hopes would be completely extinguished. At the beginning, there were still some people trying to comfort them, but the crying sounds from the cave behind became more and more frequent, and finally everyone fell into despair. The people around Yin Xiu also lost their fighting spirit at once, their eyes were empty and lifeless. "Cry! Just cry, will crying be of any use?!" The white peacock was annoyed by the crying and got up and walked out. Ma Xiaoyu followed closely behind and put on the green-faced evil ghost mask on her face. The two of them walked up to Yin Xiu and stopped. Yin Xiu didn't say anything, but just smiled and signaled them not to be nervous. The bald man and the bandits saw two beautiful women coming out of the cave. Although one of them was wearing a scary mask, their temperament and figures were different from those of ordinary people, so they couldn't help but feel happy. "I said there was a woman hiding here."
The bald man licked his dry lips and said, "And judging from the sound, there's more inside." Yin Xiu was not interested in bickering with such a villain, so he just asked him, "When you were burning, killing and looting in the Thousand Buddha Temple, did you meet a Feng Shui master or a swordsman?" "And there are Miao people." White Peacock added. "do not know." The bald man touched his head and said, "We hacked all those who could move to death. Swordsmen and knifemen, Miao and Han people, were killed with just one blow." Yin Xiu didn't get an answer from the bald man and was obviously disappointed. "That's right. If you meet Ren Qi, you bastards will be chopped into eighteen pieces and fed to the dogs, right?" "What did you say?" "I mean, you bastard, you deserve to die." Yin Xiu's tone was already filled with anger. "You still want to dream of being a hero, don't you?" the bald man sneered. The bandits took positions, rubbing their hands, ready to rob the cave, kill everyone and rob everything. The bald man was also full of confidence. After all, he was powerful in martial arts and sharp in swordsmanship, otherwise he would not have been able to dominate among a group of bandits. At this moment, a cold night wind swept in, which was completely out of place with the hot environment, making the bandits shiver. Along with the night wind came shrill roars. I don’t know who shouted first, but the bald man threw the torch over, illuminating the distance. They didn't know when many blurry shadows had appeared around them. Those shadows were moving between the long-dried trees, jumping back and forth, and even made the bald man's heart skip a beat. "What is that?" the bald man asked in a trembling voice. Then he looked at Yin Xiu, "You have companions? Ambush us?" "You are all stupid. If I had a companion, would I let you touch me like this?" Yin Xiu held the Izumi Ichimonji tightly in his hand, and the moment he exchanged glances with Ma Xiaoyu, he knew clearly what the other party was going to do, so he trusted each other with his back. After all, they have fought side by side between life and death many times, and no matter how dangerous it is, it will not affect their trust in each other. Then, he whispered to White Peacock, "Xiaoyu will deal with the zombies later, at least she won't let them rush over. You and I will deal with those people." "Deal with those people?" White Peacock was a little confused at first, but after seeing the panicked expressions of the bandits, she smiled knowingly. "That's why I think being a Taoist priest is better than being a monk." "What do you mean?" Yin Xiu asked her. "Because being a monk has three rules and six precepts, even if you don't follow them in your behavior, you still have to say "Amitabha". If you curse someone, you have to rinse your mouth and say it again, saying that you have violated the precepts. But if you are a Taoist priest, then you can just kill these people, and you can even say "killing karma is not killing people" to excuse yourself. Even if you don't say this, it doesn't seem to matter.
Because we Taoists follow our hearts." "That's true." Yin Xiu smiled, rubbed the white peacock's head, and drew his sword. (End of this chapter)