Holy Bone

Chapter 1535: It's Hard to Pull the Damned Man with Good Words

Speaking of this, I have to mention three more people.

Li Yan didn't know the true identities of these three people. He only knew that these three people were like him, working in a spice shop. They took advantage of the convenience of entering and exiting the spice shop and transporting spices to help people smuggle shady things.

If there is any difference, it is that these three people have more experience than him, so they have been exposed to more secrets than him.

At the hour of Yin that day, after purchasing the Southeast Asian spices needed for the store as usual, he did not return to Penglai Inn immediately, but parked the carriage at the designated location as instructed.

It was a very deep alley, just wide enough for one carriage to pass at a time, with no room to turn around. It was dark and there were only high brick walls on both sides and the occasional coughing sound that came and went. It was so quiet that the only sound you could hear was your own nervous heartbeat.

There is only one disease in this world that is incurable, and that is poverty.

Li Yan was tired of being poor at the bottom of society, and finally got a chance to make a fortune. Even though his heart would beat faster and his palms would sweat every time he came to this place to receive goods, he would still follow the instructions and drive a horse-drawn carriage to receive the goods.

That day, he parked the carriage as usual, got out of the carriage, and did not even dare to light a torch. He groped deep into the alley and waited for a cup of tea. When he heard a few calls of night owls, he returned the same way he came after receiving instructions.

The call of the night owl is their secret signal for meeting, meaning that the goods have been loaded and they can start transporting them on the road.

If he follows the previous process, he can only come alone and leave alone. The delivery location and remuneration will be left directly in the car by the owner for him, and the two parties will never meet.

But that night was different.

Before he got close, he could vaguely see two blurry figures sitting in the carriage in the scattered moonlight shining in the alley, appearing and disappearing like ghosts.

Li Yan was so frightened that his heart skipped a beat and he felt like his heart was about to stop beating and his scalp went cold.

After calming down for a while, he gritted his teeth and stepped forward carefully to check the situation.

He knew very well that if he abandoned the carriage and ran away alone, not only would the powerful owner of the goods not let him go, but Li Dajin would not let him go after he returned to Penglai Inn.

So no matter how nervous and scared he was, he had to go ahead.

Seeing Li Yan, the figure sitting in the carriage seemed to have been waiting impatiently for a long time, and said in an irritable tone: "What's going on? Why did you make us wait for so long? Get on the road earlier and don't miss our delivery time."

Hearing the other party's impatient voice, Li Yan was not angry. Instead, he breathed a sigh of relief and showed a happy expression. As long as the person was alive, everything would be easy.

Although he was curious about why there were two more people escorting the car today, Li Yan did not ask too many questions. Adhering to his cautious principle of "not looking too much and not asking too much", he got into the car quietly and prepared to drive away.

There are too many strange things today. In the past, there was always a copper coin under a piece of paper with the delivery address written on it. But today, there were only two hundred coins on the carriage, and no note was left.

The taller of the two people escorting the car said coldly, "Today's delivery location is not easy to get to, so we will lead the way ourselves."

There are two people escorting the car here, not three.

Because there was another person in the car.

However, Li Yan only found out about this later.

Li Yan only cared about taking money and doing things, and did not ask about other details. He took the money and drove away.

It's strange to say, the carriage had some difficulty starting. The cargo loaded today was especially heavy, and the pony pulling the carriage failed to move even after several attempts at the beginning.

Li Yan whipped the horse whip harder and frowned unhappily, saying, "Why is the cargo so heavy this time?"

"This order will cost extra."

"I have to feed the horses more hay when I get back so that my boss won't notice anything."

The other party was very generous and directly threw a hundred dollars to Li Yan without bothering to bargain, as if in their eyes, anything that could be solved with money was a trivial matter.

Li Yan was blinded by the sight of money. It was the first time that he could earn three hundred coins in one trip. One hundred coins was equivalent to one tael of silver.

To earn three taels of silver in one night is something that ordinary people cannot even imagine.

At this time, something even stranger happened. The carriage, which had been very heavy and motionless before, was immediately pulled easily by the colt after Li Yan received the money.

Li Yan wondered if there was a stone stuck under the wheel. He wanted to look back, but the alley was too narrow, just enough for a carriage to pass through, and the environment was dark, so naturally he couldn't see anything.

He didn't take this matter too seriously, his mind was focused on the heavy three hundred dollars in his arms.

Not long after the carriage left, Li Yan vaguely heard footsteps behind the carriage, as if someone was following them?

Because he was not alone in transporting goods tonight, and there were two living people sitting beside him, Li Yan muttered that usually there was not even a stray dog ​​in this alley, why were there so many people in this alley tonight...

Because the alley was narrow and the view was blocked by high brick walls on both sides, Li Yan planned to lift the small curtain of the carriage to check who was following the carriage.

The carriage of a freight carriage has a small window at the driver's position, which is convenient for checking the condition of the cargo in the carriage to see if it has overturned or been damaged.

Although there is a layer of curtain at the rear of the car to block the dust on the road, there is a small gap between the curtains, and you can still see what is behind the car if you look closely.

When Li Yan said this, his voice suddenly stopped and his body trembled with fear, as if he recalled an extremely terrifying scene. His face was full of fear and he looked distraught.

Fatty Li had experience in dealing with this kind of situation, so he just slapped the man in the face with a few big slaps. The human face is the most fragile skin, and the burning pain from the face, all the souls and spirits were taken back.

Fatty Li was really merciless when he attacked. Li Yan's cheeks were swollen and black and blue.

But no one sympathized with Li Yan.

Given the current situation, we can only say that this person deserves it.

Li Yan, who had recovered all his souls, began to continue speaking haltingly...

Hearing footsteps following behind the car, just when Li Yan was about to lift the small curtain to check, a cold hand suddenly grabbed his wrist. The hand was colder than ice and no body temperature could be felt at all.

Li Yan felt pain from the pinch and wanted to pull his hand back, but he couldn't. Instead, the force holding his wrist continued to increase.

The person who pinched his wrist was the taller of the two escorts. He said in a hoarse voice, "Don't look back, don't go back, just keep on going."

It looked as if he was afraid of being heard by the people following the carriage.

Li Yan was shocked by the other person's face. At this moment, the other person's face was extremely pale, like a dead person who had just been fished out of the river. There was fear flashing in his eyes. He was even more nervous and scared than he was.

Seeing that the two escorts had the same nervous and frightened expressions, Li Yan was also frightened and shuddered. He was infected by the other party's fear and was scared to death. His mind was full of wild thoughts along the way and he even forgot how to get to the destination.

When he came to his senses, the carriage had stopped. The two escorts walked to the back of the carriage and imitated the cry of a night owl. A man jumped out of the carriage. Only then did Li Yan realize that there was another person in the carriage.

The other party held the Five Emperors Copper Coin Sword in one hand and a small incense burner in the other. He lit a stick of incense in the small incense burner, and most of the incense had been burned, leaving only a little bit.

The third man sounded like he was thirty years old, making him the oldest among the three. Although he was not wearing a Taoist robe, the two magical weapons in his hands had already exposed his identity.

Judging from the other party's voice, he was probably the same as them, a young Taoist priest from some Taoist temple who secretly came out to make a fortune without telling his master.

As soon as the third person got off the carriage, he scolded the two people escorting the carriage, asking them to quickly move things onto the carriage as the time was almost up.

"We didn't expect that the boy was so greedy and timid. He was scared out of his wits along the way and wasted our time." The two escorts explained in a low voice.

But the third person refused to listen to the explanation and scolded the two for their poor performance.

The two people escorting the car seemed to be afraid of the third person and did not dare to refute.

Li Yan, who was in a daze, came to his senses at this moment. Hearing the word "time", his eyes subconsciously looked at the incense burner and incense sticks held by the third person.

Just with this one glance, the third person immediately sensed something and turned back to look at the carriage.

The moment their eyes met, Li Yan felt as if he had been hit hard on the back of the head by a hammer. His brain exploded and he lowered his head in fear, not daring to look around anymore.

After the third person scolded a few more times, he began to direct the two people escorting the vehicle to move the things out of the vehicle.

Although it was pitch black and there were no lights around, Li Yan could vaguely see with the moonlight that a sack was being lifted off the car. The sack was about the height of a person, tied up at both ends with hemp ropes, and was very heavy to carry. Even two people, one in front and one behind, had difficulty lifting it.

Li Yan later figured out that the sack, which was as tall as a person, must contain a dead person...

Li Yan did not see where the three men went in the end, because after the two escorts unloaded the goods, they let him leave alone and did not return in his carriage.

After going through so much that day, Li Yan fell seriously ill the same day after returning to Penglai Inn. He dreamed more than once of being chased by footsteps in a dark alleyway...

When Li Dajin heard this, he was furious. He stepped forward and kicked Li Yan a few more times, scolding Li Yan for being so heartless. He was kind enough to give Li Yan two days off that day so that Li Yan could have a good rest, but this was how Li Yan repaid him by doing so many dirty things behind his back.

Li Yan was beaten and scolded so badly that he dared not fight back. He curled up in the corner, crying loudly.

If Li Yan hadn't been stopped by Fatty Li, he would have been beaten half to death by Li Dajin.

After calming Li Yan down, Jin An asked Li Yan to continue. It must not be that simple to scare a person who is afraid of poverty but not death like this.

indeed.

Bigger troubles are yet to come.

After that incident, Li Yan fell seriously ill and did not go to purchase Southeast Asian spices for several days. Li Dajin temporarily arranged for other people.

Later, Li Yan recovered and continued to purchase Southeast Asian spices. The mysterious owner seemed to have disappeared overnight and no one found him for a month.

After a month of recovery, Li Yan had long forgotten his previous nightmare. He only wanted to continue taking jobs and helping people transport goods, so that he could save enough money to return home as soon as possible, and then buy a restaurant and become the manager himself. This would be considered a return home in glory and bring honor to his family.

About a month and a half later, the other party contacted Li Yan again, but for two or three months in a row, he helped smuggle some spices and resell them on both ends. He could only earn one hundred dollars for each trip, and only after transporting goods two or three times a month could he earn two or three hundred dollars.

For ordinary people, earning two or three hundred yuan a month is already a huge fortune, with so much money that they don’t know how to spend it.

But for Li Yan, who was used to making a fortune, especially earning three hundred dollars in one trip, how could he be satisfied with only earning one hundred dollars in one trip?

His appetite was so greedy that he could no longer be satisfied with just a hundred bucks per trip.

A turning point came one night.

That night, he helped the other party smuggle goods again. When he saw the two people who escorted the car last time, Li Yan was delighted.

As expected, Li Yan did not disappoint. This time, the other party was still very generous and gave Li Yan three hundred dollars at a time. The other party still had that impatient tone and asked Li Yan to just deliver the goods to the destination honestly like last time.

During this time, there was a small incident. The two escorts seemed to have a disagreement. They avoided Li Yan and argued quietly for a while. The tall man looked down on the timid Li Yan...

Finally, they reached a consensus and Li Yan stayed.

Strange things happened again on this trip. There were bursts of crying in the carriage, which made people's scalps cold. It was creepy and terrifying, as if there was someone lying on his back, crying in his ears, and his body was ice-cold.

Li Yan was startled and wanted to turn his head to look behind him, but the two people escorting the car held down his arms at the same time. Both of them had extremely ugly expressions on their faces. They shook their heads at him stiffly, their mouths tightly closed, and they didn't dare to breathe.

Looking at the two people's stiff movements, Li Yan, who was lying in the dark alley, suddenly thought of the paper figures he had seen when he passed by the Fu Shou store during the day.

This trip was the same as the last time. After arriving at the destination, the third person got off the carriage, also holding the Five Emperors' Copper Coin Sword and an incense burner with a stick of incense burning in it.

The third person looked up at the night sky, then looked down at the burning speed of the incense sticks in the incense burner and nodded slightly, as if he was satisfied with the trip.

Seeing the third person nodding with satisfaction, the tall man escorting the car took out another hundred dollars and gave it to Li Yan as an extra reward. Li Yan was overjoyed at the sight of the money.

The goods being transported this time were still burlap bags as tall as a person. The two escorts carried them at the front and back, followed by the third person and disappeared into the night, leaving Li Yan to go back first.

……

Because of his satisfaction with this trip, Li Yan received more and more big jobs, which increased dramatically to four or five trips a month. Sometimes he helped to transport a burlap bag as tall as a person, and the reward for each trip was three hundred yuan.

Occasionally, if you help transport two burlap sacks as tall as a person, your reward can increase dramatically to six hundred dollars.

Strange things would happen every time they went there. The strangest one was when thick fog rose all around them and they kept circling in the alley and couldn't get out.

Finally, the third person who had been performing the ritual in the carriage was alarmed.

The man cut his fingertips with the Five Emperors Copper Coin Sword and drew two yellow talismans with his fingertip blood. He then tore off pieces of cloth and stuffed the yellow talismans into the pieces of cloth, then tied the horses' eyes before they could get out.

After coming back that time, Li Yan fell seriously ill again. He kept walking in circles in his dreams and slept for a whole day and night. He was not awakened until the crowing of a rooster the next day.

Perhaps even the cargo owner knows that it is too much of a stretch to transport two sacks at a time, so most of the time it is just one sack, and only occasionally are two sacks transported at the same time.

Li Yan's greedy appetite has been developed. Although he knows that something is wrong, he is reluctant to give up the money that is coming in like gold falling from the sky. He only wants to earn enough money to buy a restaurant as soon as possible, then quit his job early and return to his hometown to live out the rest of his life.

  Six days ago, Li Yan helped the other party transport goods again. After this experience, Li Yan finally realized that he had been helping someone smuggle the dead! Because what he transported this time was no longer a sack, but a black coffin!

Li Yan was so scared that his nose and tears were streaming, and his pupils contracted in fear: "When they took the coffin off the car, I panicked. All of a sudden, my mind flashed back to those sacks that I had helped smuggle over the past few months... It turned out that those were corpse bags!"

"Uncle, you must save me. We saw something we shouldn't have seen. We are all going to die. They said we are all going to die. Let me run as far as I can and never return to the capital!"

At the critical moment, Li Yan went crazy. Fatty Li got angry and slapped him a dozen times: "Who are they?"

"Are they the three people who were in charge of escorting the car?"

"Why would they run away, just because you saw the coffin?"

His face was swollen from being slapped, but it still couldn't hide the paleness of Li Yan's fright: "It's not because I saw the coffin!"

"The coffin was too heavy, they couldn't lift it, so they asked me to help carry it... Four people carrying the coffin just meant that we are all going to die! We are all going to die! We are all going to die!"

Li Yan's eyes were bloodshot and he looked like a madman.

Suddenly, Jin An made a move. He raised his index finger and pointed at the sunken life palace between Li Yan's eyebrows. Then, all the black energy that erupted from Li Yan's eyebrows was drawn out by him.

The black air twisted and floated in the void, and a black symbol could be vaguely seen.

The old Taoist priest exclaimed: "It's a poisonous curse!"

Jin An clenched his palms, and yang fire rose from his palms, crushing the poisonous heart spell on the spot, destroying it completely.

"You dare to use such shameful ghost tricks to harm people in front of me." Jin An snorted coldly.

Although Li Yan was rescued by him, his eyes were dull and drooling, and he had become an idiot.

Jin An raised his eyebrows, his expression slightly gloomy.

Deputy Commander Sun was surprised: "Commander, has this greedy villain turned into an idiot?"

Jin An's voice was icy cold: "The evil cultivator hiding behind had made Li Yan drink the poisonous water and swear a poisonous oath from the beginning. If he breaks the oath and reveals the secret, he will be doomed and his soul will be shattered."

"Although I stopped the poisonous curse from harming people just now, the other party was very cunning. Planting the poisonous curse was not enough, and he actually took away Li Yan's soul and spirit as a double insurance. As soon as the other party sensed the outbreak of the poisonous curse, he knew that the truth had been revealed, and shattered Li Yan's soul and spirit. Once a person's soul and spirit are incomplete, he will become confused and stupid, like a walking corpse."

The old Taoist saw that Jin An was regretful, and he sighed and comforted him, "It's hard to persuade a damned ghost with kind words. He has been dealing with ghosts and monsters for more than a year, and has been suffering from evil spirits. He is a damned ghost. My little brother, you saved his life today, which is equivalent to snatching him from the hands of the Ox-Headed and Horse-Faced Ghost Gate. You have done what you can, so don't think too much."

Upon hearing this, Fatty Li cursed angrily: "The most important witness has become an idiot, and the clues are cut off! We haven't even had time to find out the identities of the other three people!"

"Before they had the chance to find out where the bodies were dumped, and what they saw at the end, why did they all suffer such a disaster?"

"Assholes, if we don't catch these evil cultivators as soon as possible, who knows how many more innocent people will be harmed!"

Jin An snorted coldly: "The clues may not be interrupted!"

"I want to see how many evil spirits are hiding in this spice shop. No matter how deep they hide, I will dig them out even if I have to dig three feet into the ground! Tonight, I will kill all the gods and ghosts. I will go on a killing spree and clean up the world!"