Chapter 241: Weird 【03】
Uncle Yang who was behind the gate looked at Xue Yuanjing with a respectful smile: "It turns out that the second young master is back!"
The man who will be standing near next year has a cold and deep appearance, extraordinary heroism, tall and straight, and powerful, mature and stable after many setbacks. But Uncle Yang seemed to see Xue Yuanjing, a young man fifteen years ago, and did not doubt his identity at all.
"Second Young Master, tomorrow is the eldest young master's birthday. Fortunately, you came back in time. It is dark today. The old lady and the eldest young master are worried about you. Come in!"
Xue Yuanjing's heart trembled, and he looked at Uncle Yang with complicated eyes. He knew that something was wrong with Xuejiazhuang, but he really wanted to go in and have a look at his parents and elder brother.
Even at the cost of life.
The corner of Xue Yuanjing's lips evoked a sunny smile, and his voice was filled with joy: "I made my parents and eldest brother wait for a long time. Didn't I go get my eldest brother a birthday present?"
He just stepped into the gate of Xuejiazhuang.
"Xue Yuanjing!" Jiang Li couldn't help calling him.
Xue Yuanjing looked back at Jiang Li, and Uncle Yang also looked at Jiang Li and the other three, and asked with a smile, "Second Young Master, are they all your friends?"
Xue Yuanjing looked at Jiang Li and asked, "Do you want to come in?"
Jiang Li shook his head cautiously. The investigation of strangeness cannot be casually entered into the scope of strangeness. They still have a lot of preliminary work to be carried out outside Xuejiazhuang.
He and the other two were a little dissatisfied with Xue Yuanjing's unauthorized entry into Xuejiazhuang. They wanted Xue Yuanjing to be the cannon fodder to lead the way, but now seeing Xue Yuanjing's reckless behavior, he was very disappointed and silently gave up to bring people back.
Anyway, Xue Yuanjing had already stepped into Xuejiazhuang and entered the strange area. Even if they made a move, they might not be able to save people.
Jiang Li did not open his mouth to persuade Xue Yuanjing to come out. The other two ghost exorcists had sneers on their faces, looking at Xue Yuanjing as if they were looking at a dead man digging his own grave.
When Xue Yuanjing was thirteen years old, his family was destroyed, he was chased and fled, and he wandered around the world for fifteen years. What kind of storms have he never seen? It is natural to see people's eyes. He can see the eyes of the three of Jiang Li, but he is too lazy to care.
"They're not my friends, I don't know them," he said.
This was the only help he gave to Jiang Li and the three who took him home through the fog before he entered Xuejiazhuang.
He knew that when he stepped into the gate of Xuejiazhuang this time, he would die, and distanced himself from the three of Jiang Li, so that he would not involve them because of himself.
Uncle Yang withdrew his gaze towards Jiang Li and the three, as if he didn't want to give them another look after knowing that these three were not friends of the second young master.
"Second young master, please come inside."
Xue Yuanjing walked into Xuejiazhuang. The scenery he saw along the way and the servants he met seemed to be back to 15 years ago. He seemed to be the 13-year-old boy who was under the lap of Chenghuan's parents and loved by his elder brother.
With a smile on his lips, he walked towards the main hall step by step.
Crossing the threshold, he saw the majestic and handsome father and the gentle and loving mother sitting on the upper seat, looking at him with a smile: "Jing'er is back."
Huo Ran, the eldest brother who was sitting next to his father and mother just now, got up, strode towards him, and patted his shoulder happily: "Why did you go out for so long? It was dark before you came home, and the eldest brother thought you couldn't catch up. Tomorrow's birthday party."
From the outside, the eldest brother looks like a teenager, but he is almost middle-aged, but the eldest brother still treats him like a teenager.
Xue Yuanjing unknowingly burst into tears, he didn't care to wipe his own tears, and greedily looked at the faces of his parents and eldest brother that he could only dream of several times in the middle of the night: "Father, mother, eldest brother, I miss you so much... "
Xue's father and Xue's mother also stood up and looked at him with pity: "Why are you crying? Such a big child still looks like a little crying bag, and my parents miss you too."
Xue Yuanjing cried like a child, and was comforted by Mother Xue in her arms. The scene that could only be dreamed in a dream turned into reality. Let Xue Yuanjing sincerely hope that time will stay at this moment forever, even if it is fake. Yes, he also willingly immersed himself in it.
Father Xue looked at the mother and son who were crying together, and persuaded: "It's dinner time soon. Jinger came back so late, she must be hungry, let's eat first."
The servants brought dishes one after another, all of which were often eaten at family banquets in the past, making Xue Yuanjing's eyes red again.
The elder brother sitting across from him asked with a smile: "Yuanjing, didn't you say that you gave me a birthday present today? What kind of gift is it?"
Xue Yuanjing touched a small box in his arms, twitched the corner of his mouth, and said with difficulty, "Brother, the birthday present can only be given to you tomorrow."
Fifteen years ago, he came back excitedly with a birthday present, but he saw Xue Jiazhuang who had been wiped out. This birthday gift would never be given out.
Now he knows that everything in front of him is an illusion, but he thinks that the birthday gift in his arms, which is overdue for fifteen years, can definitely be given out tomorrow on the birthday of the eldest brother.
Even if the illusion of tomorrow will appear as a murderer and enter Xuejiazhuang as it was fifteen years ago, he wants the murderer to come and go!
No one can destroy their family reunion! No one can!
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After Xue Yuanjing finished dinner, he didn't feel full at all, which made him deeply understand that everything in front of him was fake and an illusion.
But he was willing to immerse himself in it, unable to extricate himself.
After dinner, Yuan Jia took Xue Yuanjing to his courtyard to rest.
Xue Yuanjing's residence is next to Xue Yuanjia, living next to him.
Yuan Jia brought Xue Yuanjing to his courtyard, and said with a smile, "It's late at night, Yuanjing, you have a good rest, you have to get up early tomorrow."
He looked at the ghost servants who were sent to serve Xue Yuanjing: "Serve the second young master well."
"Yes!" The ghost servants responded respectfully one by one.
Xue Yuanjing said, "Big brother, let's sleep together tonight. I want to sleep with big brother. I'm afraid to sleep alone."
Yuan Jia sighed deeply in his heart, but with a smile on his face: "You are thirteen years old, and you will be able to marry a wife in two years. Are you still afraid of sleeping alone? Are you ashamed?"
Xue Yuanjing smiled cheerfully: "If eldest brother doesn't say it, who knows? I'm not afraid of being laughed at."
Yuan Jia nodded his forehead amusingly, and agreed: "Okay, just come here. You didn't take back the quilt you put in my room last time, it just happened to be used."
Xue Yuanjing followed Yuan Jia with a smile.
Qing Yan had already helped make two quilts on Yuan Jia's big bed, and waited for the two to wash up. Yuan Jia took off her shoes and went to bed.
Seeing Xue Yuanjing still standing there, he smiled and beckoned: "Yuanjing, come up quickly."
Xue Yuanjing pursed his lips and smiled, even if he knew that it was an illusion, or that the elder brother who smiled warmly at him was a ghost, he was not afraid at all.
He climbed onto the bed with a happy mood and lay beside his eldest brother, just like when he was a child, pestering him to talk: "Brother, tell me a story, I can't sleep."
Yuan Jia flapped his palm, and the wind blew out the candle, and the room went dark.
In the darkness, his voice sounded: "Okay, then eldest brother will tell you the story of the father and mother who made a name for themselves in the world when they were young..."
"Mmmm!" Xue Yuanjing listened obediently while holding the quilt. Even though this was a bedtime story he had heard many times before, but after fifteen years, hearing his eldest brother speak slowly, there was an indescribable sadness. taste.
Xue Yuanjing thought that he would not be able to fall asleep, so he just lay there all night and waited for the dawn, or before dawn, the ghost turned into a big brother by his side would show a hideous face and kill him.
But he didn't expect his eyelids to get heavier and heavier in the gentle voice of his eldest brother, so he fell asleep so deeply.
After Xue Yuanjing fell asleep, Yuan Jia continued to wrap up the story she told. After finishing speaking, she turned to look at Xue Yuanjing who was sleeping, and sighed, "What a stupid child."
He turned his head to look outside again, and his eyes penetrated the space to see the wall of Xuejiazhuang, and three figures suddenly climbed over the wall and entered.
Yuan Jia sneered: "Heaven has no way to go, and **** has no door. If you don't go through a good gate, you have to climb over the wall..."
His figure suddenly disappeared on the bed, and his figure suddenly appeared outside the door.
Yuan Jia glanced at Qing Yan, who was guarding the door, and instructed lightly, "Protect the second young master."
Qing Yan replied respectfully, "Yes, eldest young master."
Yuan Jia slowly walked towards the three figures who climbed over the wall. He could sense that they had mysterious powers similar to the rules he controlled. Those ghosts in Xuejiazhuang were ok against ordinary people. These three people can only give away the head, so he has to do it himself.
But Yuan Jia didn't care too much about these three people, because they entered Xuejiazhuang's death rules from the moment they climbed the wall. Unless they were strong enough to reverse Xuejiazhuang's death rules, they would die.
Yuan Jia walked to the place where Jiang Li and the other three sneaked in, and he appeared in front of them: "Where did the little thief come from, dare to break into my Xuejiazhuang?"
The three Jiang Li, who thought they had sneaked in and were well hidden, froze in place, staring at Yuan Jia with extreme vigilance.
They didn't sense any Yin Qi from Yuan Jia, not only were they not relieved, but they were even more afraid.
The seventeen or eighteen-year-old boy in front of him looked like a normal living person, but in addition to the three living people in Xuejiazhuang, perhaps there was only one left, Xue Yuanjing, who was still alive and dead.
There is no yin in his body, he is not a ghost, and he is not a living person.
A strange figure?
The three Jiang Li, who had known a lot of weirdness, were extremely frightened in their hearts. They all knew that the strangeness of the human form was far more terrifying than the strangeness of the object, because the strangeness of the human shape had simple wisdom, unlike the strangeness of the object, which was a purely strange phenomenon without the slightest wisdom.
They had always thought that Xuejiazhuang was the real weirdness, but now it seems that Xuejiazhuang's abnormality was caused by the young man in front of him.
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As the leader of the three, Jiang Li was the first to calm down. Having had a strange experience with human figures, he said with a trembling voice: "We are overnight travelers, and we entered the villa by accident. ?"
Yuan Jia glanced at them indifferently, ignoring Jiang Li's temptation at all, and said lightly, "Since you're here, then stay."
Suddenly, more than a dozen servants appeared silently beside him. The eyes of these dozen servants flashed scarlet rays, and they surrounded the three of them.
Jiang Lili shouted: "Do it!"
The ghost exorcist on Jiang Li's left pulled up the wide sleeve on his right, revealing a strange arm.
Below the elbow of the right hand is not a normal arm, but a pair of pale-white bone scissors. The scissors don't look sharp at all, as if they were made of white bones, but when he pointed at the dozen ghosts. After the servant moved the scissors, all the ghost servants seemed to be cut off by the waist, and their bodies were separated from top to bottom.
Yuan Jia also seemed to see a huge pair of bone scissors cut towards his waist, but was crushed by his rules when he approached him.
Those ghost servants who were supposed to be killed were immortal under Yuanjia's rules, and the ghost servants who were quickly cut in half were reconnected.
The owner of the bone scissors was pale, the bone scissors visible to the naked eye became longer, and his right arm was shortened by a section, as if part of his arm had become part of the bone scissors.
"Bone scissors are useless."
The ghost exorcist on Jiang Li's right quickly reached out and pulled out a hosta from his hair, swiped in front of them, and a pitch-black line appeared between Yuan Jia and Jiang Li.
This black line divided the two sides into two spaces, and Yuan Jia could feel that the ghost servants who were divided into the space of Jiang Li and the three had lost contact with him.
It's not that he can't sense the ghost servants, but that his rules can't cover the ghost servants temporarily. That is to say, once the ghost servants on Jiang Li's side are killed, they are really dead.
Yuan Jia stared at the black line in front of him, then looked up at the hosta in the hands of the ghost slayer on Jiang Li's right.
He can sense the fluctuation of the rules on the hosta, which is a strange item.
The rules cannot be broken, the rules have no solution, they can only be avoided. Yuan Jia's thoughts moved, and there was a knock on the door. The ghost slayer holding the jade hairpin glared, and fell down without breath.
Yuan Jia lightly warned them: "I advise you to do it without your hands, or you will be the next to die."
Jiang Li, who wanted to fight to the death, was too stiff to move.
He has no idea how his companion died. The three of them have been together all the time, that is to say, if the death rule is violated, the three of them violated it together. The strange human figure in front of him can also kill him at will like killing his companions.
Calm down, to calm down, now his only hope is to see whether the strange humanoid figure in front of him can communicate amicably.
Jiang Li raised his hand, indicating that he did nothing, and a flattering smile appeared on his originally arrogant face: "No move, we promise not to move."
Another ghost slayer also silently put away his right hand with bone scissors.
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After the ghost slayer who held the hosta died, the hosta fell to the ground without being controlled.
And the black line that was drawn originally was also worn away by Yuan Jia's rules.
Rules and rules can collide with each other, and strong rules can kill weak ones. The strength and weakness of the rules are not absolute, it mainly depends on whether they are mutually restrained.
For example, the ghost slayer holding a jade hairpin broke into Xuejiazhuang because he climbed the wall and entered Yuanjia's death rules, which also means that the jade hairpin entered his death rules.
The hosta was naturally suppressed by him at his home court, and the black line was quickly worn away.
Yuan Jia walked over to pick up the hosta, and a message passed into his mind.
This hairpin is called drawing the ground as a prison. If you draw a circle with it, you can trap people inside. People outside cannot attack the inside, and people inside cannot attack the outside. The cost of use is a ten-year reduction in lifespan each time you use it.
In a hurry just now, the ghost slayer holding this hairpin didn't have time to slowly draw a circle, so he could only draw a line to stop Yuan Jia first.
If he drew a circle, Yuan Jia really couldn't let him die immediately. He had to first collide with the hairpin and erase the black circle before killing the ghost killer who was protected by the ground.
It's a pity that this ghost remover only drew a black line, and the entire Xuejiazhuang is equivalent to an extension of Yuan Jia's body and rules. He can block the front, but not the side and the back.
Weird items that are not very dangerous, such as "painting the ground as a prison hairpin", can be used by the ghost killer. Yuan Jia took this "painting the ground as a prison hairpin" and thought of Xue Yuanjing.
Xue Yuanjing is just an ordinary person. No matter how high his martial arts skills are, he will be helpless when facing ghosts and weirdness.
He wanted to give Xue Yuanjing this 'drawing the ground as a prison hairpin' for body protection. Although ten years of life are expensive to use, losing ten years of life is better than losing your life.
Yuan Jia put away the "painting the ground as a prison hairpin", and glanced at the remaining two Jiang Li, the ghost servants had already arrested them.
His divine sense probed the two of them, and they were all clear about the strange objects on them.
The two people with high spiritual senses could feel as if they were naked by Yuan Jia without clothes on, their scalps were numb and their hairs stood on end, and they didn't dare to move.
Yuan Jia took out a small black flag from Jiang Li, and the same invisible message was passed to him: take the flag of Yin and open up the road to the underworld. One use consumes a strand of soul.
This is also a strange item, which can open up the road to the underworld. Jiang Li applied for this flag of walking through the shadows because he thought that if he was trapped in Xuejiazhuang and could not get out, he would use the flag of walking through the shadows to leave Xuejiazhuang through the underworld.
There are three people, each with a strange item on their bodies. 'Drawing the ground as a prison hairpin' and 'Walking Yin Flag' are both defensive and escaping types, and only 'Bone Scissors' are attacking types.
Yuan Jian can sense that the attack rule of the bone scissors is to cut off everything within its rules.
His eyes fell on the right hand of the ghost exorcist, and he said, "Give it over."
The ghost remover's expression changed, but he still clenched his teeth and broke the bone scissors on his right hand and handed it to Yuan Jia.
After the bone scissors were removed, the right arm of the ghost remover was only left above the elbow. Blood was still flowing from the wound, and he was barely able to wrap it up with a torn cloth from his clothes, but he couldn't restore his arm. normal.
It seems that these bone scissors should be prepared to give up their arms before using them.
However, the cost of using it is lower than the other two strange items. Using the bone scissors once will swallow part of the user's body until the user is completely swallowed.
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Yuan Jia sent ghost servants to lock them up. Without the strange objects, the two ghost slayers couldn't escape even if they wanted to. They wanted to deal with the many ghost servants who had been strengthened by Yuan Jia. impossible.
He also knew that the two of them were caught temporarily, trying to find an opportunity to escape, but he didn't care.
After locking Jiang Li and the two, Yuan Jia went back to sleep.
In Xuejiazhuang's dungeon, Jiang Li looked at his companion whose arm was still bleeding, and said with a wry smile, "Are you alright?"
"I'm fine, I can't die with this blood. Now think about how to escape from the humanoid monster alive. This monster looks very intelligent and doesn't look confused at all."
Jiang Li pondered: "As far as I know, the young man of this age in the Xue family village should be Xue Yuanjia, the eldest young master of the Xue family who died in the massacre fifteen years ago. change."
"Xue Yuanjing!" The ghost killer with the broken arm suddenly realized, "Our vitality lies in Xue Yuanjing!"
He looked at Jiang Li, and his eyes were glad: "Fortunately, you brought Xue Yuanjing."
How the weirdness is formed, no one knows, they are far more terrifying than ghosts, completely incomprehensible and hopeless.
However, there are still ways to escape from the weird hands, find the weird rule loopholes, and find that silver lining.
It is very likely that this strange human shape in Xuejiazhuang was formed after the death of Xue Yuanjia, the eldest young master of Xuejiazhuang, so Xue Yuanjia's younger brother Xue Yuanjing may be the lifeline.
Jiang Li smiled bitterly and said, "Perhaps before we entered Xuejiazhuang, when the ghost asked us if we were friends of Xue Yuanjing, we should not deny it."
It is very rare to have a strange human shape. Most people turn into ghosts after death. The strangeness is that a certain environment or a certain item has a strange phenomenon. Killing people is invisible, and it is extremely rare for people to become strange after death.
Before the three Jiang Li came to Xuejiazhuang, they only thought that Xuejiazhuang had turned into a strange person after experiencing the massacre. Unexpectedly, it was Xue Yuanjia, the eldest young master of Xuejiazhuang, who turned into a strange one, and he controlled Xuejiazhuang to make waves.
Knowing this, he should have followed Xue Yuanjing as his friend when he entered Xuejiazhuang. This is the highest safety factor.
The two discussed how to find Xue Yuanjing in the dungeon, and the sky gradually brightened.
The sound of a rooster crowing came from out of nowhere.
Xue Yuanjing got up when he heard the chicken, opened his eyes, and saw the elder brother who had sat up was getting dressed.
He murmured, "Brother?"
Yuan Jia turned around and smiled at him: "It's dawn, it's time to get up and practice martial arts. Today is my birthday, but today's martial arts practice can't be slack."
Xue Yuanjing's lips trembled slightly, unable to speak, he could only nod his head vigorously.
How many years, how many years... Over the years, he has dreamed countless times in his dreams of the scene where the family lived together and laughed and laughed before Xuejiazhuang was destroyed, but he subconsciously rejected the day when the family was destroyed, so no matter how he dreamed, I will never dream of the arrival of my eldest brother's eighteenth birthday.
And today, my eldest brother said, today is his birthday.
Xue Yuanjing blinked hard, forcing back the tears that were about to overflow from his eyes. He got up and put on a training weapon. After washing up, he went to the training ground with his elder brother.
"Punches with force, but not too hard."
"You must be firm in the next game, otherwise you will easily be knocked down when you fight with others..."
Xue Yuanjing has already achieved great feats, and there are few rivals in the arena, but at this moment, he is willing to be taught how to practice boxing by his elder brother on the martial arts field like a beginner.
Even because he was greedy for the warmth of the moment, he deliberately practiced crookedly, and his elder brother held his hand to demonstrate and guide him, which made his heart blaze.
After practicing from the bright sky to the bright sky, the eldest brother stopped and said to him, "Just here, go change clothes and have breakfast with your parents."
Xue Yuanjing answered cheerfully, "Okay!" He trotted with a jump, showing his good mood.
Yuan Jia walked behind him, looking at his childish appearance, he couldn't help laughing: "Be careful, don't fall."
Xue Yuanjing responded loudly, "It won't fall."
The two changed their clothes and went to have breakfast with Xue's father and Xue's mother. They had been waiting for a long time.