$845, Terrifying (1/2)
The woman in a dark blue thick robe with longevity patterns painted all over it sat up from the wooden box.
She turned her head more than ninety degrees, staring at a certain direction.
Her whole body was like a piece of clothing on a hanger, lifted by an invisible force and hung on the treetops by the river.
The next moment, her whole ‘person’ was lifted by some inexplicable force, floating in the dark night, catching up with the caravan.
——
The howling wind passed by Xu Jing’s ears.
The sharp sound of the wind kept ringing in his ears.
Xu Jing clamped his horse’s belly, staring at the swaying flames in the darkness in front of him without blinking, and his mind did not dare to relax at all, following closely at the end of the caravan.
He was an apprentice carpenter earlier, and later the carpenter’s family was killed by the rebels. He escaped because he slept in the woodshed, but he also lost his place to stay and became a beggar, with no place to eat or wear.
After failing to beg for food for three consecutive days, Xu Jing fainted on the roadside from hunger. When he woke up, he was rescued by a caravan member.
In order to earn a bite to eat, he joined this caravan.
——This was the first time Xu Jing followed the caravan across thousands of miles to do business along the Sichuan-Shu and Yunnan-Tibet Tea Horse Road. He did earn a lot of money, but compared to the money he earned, the various experiences on the thousands of miles of road were beyond his imagination and knowledge.
But the various experiences that were far beyond his imagination were commonplace for many caravan veterans.
He was still a newcomer in this caravan.
Many things had to be learned, and many things had to be experienced slowly.
Maybe after experiencing all kinds of things, he would grow into a capable caravan veteran.
Or he might die halfway before he could get through a dangerous hurdle.
When passing through a disaster area in Shu before, most of the caravan brothers died of the "yellow earth strange disease" in the disaster area. Although Xu Jing was also infected with this yellow earth strange disease, he was lucky to survive and barely survived this dangerous hurdle.
Now, if the jade sculpture wrapped in the stone shell is also related to some evil spirit, another dangerous hurdle is about to come!
Xu Jing just earned some silver and wanted to go back alive, at least to squander all the money he earned, and then he was willing to die willingly!
Therefore, this is most likely the second dangerous hurdle for him personally, and he also wants to survive safely!
"Go!" Xu Jing shouted loudly, squeezed the horse's belly hard, and increased the speed of the horse!
His shouting sounded in the silent darkness, but it seemed particularly abrupt.
——The flickering fire in the darkness ahead had quietly disappeared since I don't know when.
In the wild, it seemed that only Xu Jing was left driving his horse alone!
Huh!
A gust of cold wind cooled the sweat on Xu Jing's body, and he was cold all over!
There were no whistles from his other companions and brothers in his ears;
The dense sound of horse hooves like raindrops also disappeared!
The darkness around him was as heavy as iron, and Xu Jing's eyes could not penetrate it at all. Even though he kept whipping the horse under his crotch, it did not increase its speed. Instead, it gradually slowed down, snorting, neighing, and turning around anxiously in the same place.
It's bad!
An idea flashed through Xu Jing's mind. He trembled all over, and tremblingly took out a paper bag from the saddle bag, tore open the paper bag, grabbed a handful of incense, and took the fire starter with his other hand. He blew it several times before blowing the red flame brightly -
He brought the flame close to the incense sticks and lit two incense sticks. Another gust of wind blew over, blowing away the incense sticks in his hand and breaking most of them!
Fortunately, the two lit incense sticks were not blown out and were still held in Xu Jing's hands!
Xu Jing crouched on the horse's back, holding the incense sticks in one hand and stroking the neck of his mount with the other hand, patting it from time to time and whispering: "Don't be afraid, don't be afraid, just keep going forward, just keep going forward..."
Perhaps his comforting effect worked. After the strong horse under his crotch shook its head for a while, it gradually took steps and walked forward.
Sweat soaked the incense sticks in Xu Jing's palm.
The burning incense sticks exuded a strange fragrance, with an inexplicable power that could soothe people's minds.
However, Xu Jing's heart was still beating like a drum.
He knew that he was now trapped in a strange incident and could be killed by a sudden evil spirit at any time - the shadow of death was following him like a shadow, making him feel tortured every moment he spent at the moment!
Xu Jing was so tortured, and time passed slowly.
The strong horse sped up.
In the iron-like darkness, the sound of wind gradually rose.
There were faint sounds of horse hooves coming from all around.
Hearing the sound of horse hooves, Xu Jing's heart was lifted. He did not dare to shout out, for fear of awakening the evil spirit lurking in the dark, who might not have noticed him yet. He just tried his best to increase the speed of the horse and ran forward--
As the horse ran, the front was no longer just dark.
Some rays of light shone from the darkness.
The milky white light was warm and peaceful.
Xu Jing drove his horse closer to the white light and saw--
Under the treetop of a tall cypress tree, there was a "person" with glowing white skin.
The wind blew the treetop, and the "person" swayed with the branches.
The face of the ‘person’ was shaped like a large, upside-down peach, with the handle of the peach forming the ‘person’s’ neck. ‘She’ was wearing a dark-blue thick robe, which was covered with ‘longevity patterns’.
She had big eyes and small red lips like strawberries.
Looking at Xu Jing, a soft smile appeared on her face, like a young girl cat coquettishly coquettishly interacting with her sweetheart, she made a light and thin voice: "Where are you going?
Can you take me with you? "
"My mother——"
A chill hit Xu Jing's forehead from his tailbone. Xu Jing felt that the chill had knocked open his Heavenly Spirit Cap and floated in the air. He screamed in horror and turned his horse's head sharply - but the strong horse under his crotch seemed to be... The four hooves were like roots, standing in place, motionless.
The body of the strong horse became cold and stiff.
already dead!
Xu Jing kicked off his stirrups, rolled off his horse, and rolled and crawled away towards the distance!
"Take me with you, okay?"
The peach-faced Li Wei was still whispering.
The voice rang in Xu Jing's ears.
He turned his head and saw the cold, stiff face, which was close to his left temple hair. In its dark eye sockets, the pale eyes rolled to the corners of the eyes, and the eyes were peaceful and quiet. Watching Xu Jing quietly.
"Take me with you, okay?"
Li Gui had an unchanging smile on his face.
The smile that originally looked gentle and graceful became eerie and terrifying under the dark exaggeration!
A pair of gleaming white arms emerged from Xu Jing's cuffs and wrapped around his neck. His thoughts became stagnant at this moment, and he opened his mouth, unable to say a complete sentence: "I..."
In the time it took to say a word, tears already fell from the corners of my eyes to my chin!
More layers of arms emerged from Xu Jing’s collar, cuffs, lapels, and folds on his clothes, wrapping Xu Jing layer by layer—
"Take me with you, okay?"
Li Gui repeated the thin and soft sound like the chirping of a bird, and her head got into Xu Jing's mouth.
"Take me with you, okay?"
Her voice sounded in Xu Jing's mouth.
Then, it sounded in Xu Jing's neck again.
Delicate little hands sprouted from her mouth and climbed over Xu Jing's neck, about to tear out Xu Jing's internal organs——
clang! clang! clang!
The sound of gongs suddenly sounded!
The white light arms that wrapped around Xu Jing's body and were still slowly squirming suddenly stopped moving!
In the darkness, several 'ghost faces' rushed out!
Those colorful and half-faced ghost faces were changing directions in the darkness, and the sound of gongs that shook the night continued to come from under the ghost faces, hitting the 'eardrums' of the surrounding creatures and evil spirits one after another!
clang! clang! clang!
The sound of gongs suddenly approached Xu Jing——
The white light arms wrapped around Xu Jing's body suddenly dispersed!
The black robe with the longevity pattern that was close to Xu Jing suddenly collided with the nearby grimace that was constantly twisting and pulling!
Dangdang!
At this time, two more indigo ghost faces suddenly rushed out from the darkness to the left and right of the ghost face. Accompanied by the sound of intensive gongs, the two ghost faces rushed straight towards the black man with a longevity pattern on his head that emerged from Xu Jing's mouth. The robe is so weird!
"Take me with you, okay?"
"Take me with you, okay?"
Li Kuai repeated these words in his mouth, and his figure suddenly flew away and hung on the top of a wild tree in the distance!
Clang, clang, clang, clang!
The rhythm of the gong changes, with a frequency of one second between each sound.
Xu Jing, who was standing on the spot, unable to move due to being eroded by the strange rhyme, suddenly disappeared from the spot - where he stood, there was only a blood-red grimace, and several grimaces clustered around him, all disappeared at this moment. trace.
"Take me with you, okay?"
The Li Gui hanging on the treetop suddenly rushed straight towards the bloody grimace that was standing there, twisting and pulling!
The blood-red grimace suddenly turned pale!
That layer of pale white dispersed into a burst of smoke amid the shaking and twisting of the grimace!
Around Li Jui, who was approaching the ghost face, dozens of ghost faces appeared in layers in an instant, and dense gong sounds also sounded the moment the white smoke dispersed!
Dozens of twisted grimaces gathered around Li Jui!
"ah!"
Li Gui suddenly screamed, and instantly drifted back to the treetops further away!
Dozens of ghost faces surrounded the blood-red ghost face that dispersed a burst of white smoke. They advanced and retreated in the darkness, dodged and evaded, rushed and slowed down, and in this constant interlacing, the blood-red ghost face was hidden.
All the ghostly faces disappeared into the darkness!
——
"Go, go, go!"
"Help Mr. Xu onto the carriage!"
"Dissolve the medicinal water and pour it into him!"
"Go quickly, don't stop!"
"That Gui might catch up with him again sometime!"
Dozens of 'ghost faces' that were constantly twisting and pulling flew onto the backs of a group of horses in the wild forest. A group of strong horses neighed like a black whirlwind passing over the earth to join the convoy further away.
Those twisted and pulled faces turned out to be colorful cloaks that exuded bursts of odor!
The members of the Zhuma Gang ran all the way.
Bursts of white smoke kept rolling out from under the cloak, filling the area for miles!