I have a weird dynasty

Chapter 23 Taking advantage of the situation
After throwing a stone to test and finding that the talisman on the door had no strange effect on her as a living person, Sang Que took out a hatchet and chopped open the door lock with one stroke.

With a creak, the two wooden doors were pushed open by Sangque with a hatchet. A strong stench of corpse hit the face, accompanied by bursts of bell sounds.

The room was very dark, and the four corners were unclear. There were many criss-crossing red ropes with small golden bells and talismans hanging on them.

There are also densely packed talisman papers and red runes on the walls, ground and roof.

In the middle of the room was a long wooden table stained with dark red stains. The only source of light came from the red candles with wax accumulated on the wooden table.

There is a shelf on the left with some drums and lanterns of different sizes on it. The drum heads have strange shapes and the lanterns are similar to soul lanterns, but without runes.

In the right corner of the wall, there were some bones and a few jars with the word "wine" written on faded red paper. There were many knives and axes hanging on the wall, all stained with blood.

There is something in the deepest part of the room, but it is too dark to see clearly.

Sangque pulled out a handkerchief from his sleeve and tied it around his face. It had a hint of mugwort on it, which refreshed him.

Sang Que still threw the stone in first, and after waiting for a while without any movement, she moved Yan Daozi's armchair and stuck it at the door.

Isn't it like this in horror movies and games? Once the protagonist enters, the door closes by itself and can never be opened again, so she has to be on guard.

Taking the lamp outside and lighting it, Sang Que bent down to avoid the crisscrossing red ropes and bells at the door and walked into the house.

Ringing~
A cold wind blew, and Sang Que felt a suppressive force, causing the cold and gloomy energy belonging to Guichou in her body to shrink rapidly.

This place can indeed greatly suppress Guichou's power. Yan Daozi must have deliberately placed Guichou's things here, waiting for Guichou to fall into the trap.

But Sangque is a living person, and the layout of the house has little effect on her.

"Strange, I always feel that the size of this house is different from what I see from outside."

Sang Que tried to slow down her breathing as much as possible to prevent anything from causing hallucinations. She gripped the hatchet tightly, held up the lamp, and walked towards the deepest part of the house, hoping to find what she wanted as soon as possible.

The candlelight flickered, and the blue bricks on the ground were covered with a thick layer of red stains, which were sticky and smelly.

When passing by the long table, a girl suddenly appeared lying on it, with the entire skin on her back torn off and blood dripping down the girl's hanging arms.

Sangque was in a daze. There was nothing on the long table. A hand drum on the left shelf suddenly fell down with a bang, which scared Sangque.

"Yan Daozi must have held a blood sacrifice here. Those drum skins and lantern skins must be human skins."

Sang Que felt a chill in his heart and quickened his pace.

From the outside, she saw that the house was no more than five meters long and wide, but after she came in, she had to walk at least a dozen steps before she could see the innermost wall of the house.

There was a pitch-black coffin at the foot of the wall. The coffin lid was open. Sangque held up the lamp, but there was nothing inside.

"Could it be that Yan Daozi prepared it for himself? Where is the thing that Guichou wants?"

Sang Que looked around. The darkness was swallowing up the light from the lamp. There seemed to be countless malicious eyes in the dark, staring at him and making Sang Que's scalp numb.

Ringing~
The bell on the red rope swayed slightly, and Sangque walked quickly to the shelf on the left to check the drums and lanterns on it.

What Guichou was missing was a heart, arms, a pair of eyeballs and a tongue, and there was obviously no such thing on the shelf.

Sang Que checked carefully and found that the stains on the ground under the shelf were different from the surrounding stains, and the blue bricks were somewhat loose. She pried open the blue bricks with a hatchet and found a locked wooden box underneath.

Taking out the wooden box, Sang Que used an axe to chop open the lock, revealing a stack of talisman papers and two red candles neatly placed inside.

Unlike the exorcism talismans which have yellow paper with red runes, these talisman papers all have black runes on a white background. The runes are weirdly twisted, as if ghosts are jumping on the paper.

Anything that can be hidden must be a good thing. Sang Que decisively stuffed all the talismans and candles in the wooden box into his lapel and continued to look elsewhere.

Sang Que turned around and saw an armchair across her back. It was the one she had just used to hold Carmen's arms!

She looked towards the door, and sure enough, the door had been closed silently at some point.

Ring~ring~ring~
The bell on the red rope suddenly shook violently. The crisp sound made Sang Que's ears sting and a cold wind blew behind her head. She turned around without hesitation and chopped it down fiercely with a knife.

The hatchet hit the flesh and got stuck on the bone. The flickering light from the lamp illuminated the face, and a chill rushed straight to Sang Que's head.

Ming Zhang!

Ming Zhang was dead, his eyes had been gouged out, his stomach had been ripped open, his face was covered in blood!
It turned out that the coffin inside belonged to Ming Zhang, and that was why she saw the coffin-shaped black fog around the courtyard that night when she was summoning souls.

Yan Daozi is raising a corpse!

Unable to pull out the hatchet, Mingzhang raised his hand to grab Sangque's neck. Sangque smashed the lantern, let go of the hatchet and retreated.

Mingzhang's Taoist robe was ignited by the lamp oil. He did not react to the burning fire and pounced straight towards Sangque.

Sang Que retreated to the long table and suddenly discovered that under Ming Zhang's right shoulder was an obviously short and slender child's arm, which was blue and shriveled.

Guichou’s right hand!
In the book that Yan Daozi gave her, it was mentioned that Yin objects can be used to raise corpses.

If you are lucky, the corpse can inherit the ability of the Yin object. Although this will weaken the effectiveness of the Yin object, it can prolong the usage time of the Yin object, and the backlash after use will also be borne by the corpse.

There are even people who use living people to nourish Yin objects. There are no specific methods in the book, but it is just mentioned as a popular science.

It has only been five days since Mingzhang's death, so he definitely hasn't merged with any evil entities. Even if he turns into a zombie, he won't be too powerful, so you can still fight.

Sang Que quickly weighed the pros and cons and made up her mind. Since she couldn't move inside the house, she walked around the table to avoid Ming Zhang who was rushing towards her and rushed to the door.

There was a huhuo sound behind him. Sang Que pulled off the red rope that was blocking the way and kicked the door open.

Sang Que was shocked when she took a step forward. She was still standing at the door, with the scarlet long table in front of her, talisman paper all over the floor, red rope bells and faint candlelight.

This unscientific!

Sang Que called out "Guichou" in his heart, but Guichou did not respond at all. This room had a strong suppressive effect on Guichou.

You can only rely on yourself!

Darkness surged on the side. Sang Que ducked to avoid Ming Zhang who was rushing towards him and kicked him in the knee.

It was like kicking a iron plate. Sangque was knocked back, but Mingzhang didn't move at all.

Ming Zhang's short arm grabbed over, and Sang Que tilted his head back to avoid the touch.

Mingzhang pounced again, Sangque went around the table, pulled a red rope from mid-air, wrapped it around the arm that Mingzhang grabbed, and went around behind Mingzhang to tighten it.

Mingzhang struggled hard with such great strength that Sangque could not resist him at all. The red rope broke and Sangque immediately flashed away.

It was written in the book given by Yan Daozi that the exorcism talisman is ineffective against corpses.

Sang Que acted decisively, untied the cloth belt around his waist, grabbed a handful of glutinous rice and threw it hard at Ming Zhang.

Glutinous rice fell on Ming Zhang like flowers from the sky, and like countless hot sparks, it burned wisps of black smoke on Ming Zhang's body.

The limited glutinous rice could not stop Ming Zhang. With a red rope bell wrapped around his hand, he rushed forward again. Sangque was methodical and calm.

The more critical the situation is, the calmer and more focused she becomes.

A tube of black dog blood was accurately splashed onto Ming Zhang's hideous and terrifying face, immediately burning out a large amount of black smoke.

Mingzhang screamed and stepped back. Sangque took out the red cloth that he had prepared long ago, shook it open, wrapped the child's arm under Mingzhang's right shoulder, and pulled it up.

Then pull out the red rope soaked in the black dog blood bamboo tube, quickly wrap it around nine times, and twist and pull it with all your strength.

Black dog blood is more effective than chicken blood and can also temporarily seal evil objects.

click!
With a breaking sound, the arm fell off along with the hatchet that was stuck on Mingzhang's right shoulder.

Sang Que staggered backwards due to his own force. Before Ming Zhang could counterattack, he quickly picked up the hatchet on the ground, cut the red ropes around him, and grabbed a large amount of talisman paper from the wall with his bare hands.

Sangque walked back to the long table and took the candle from it.

Snapped!
An illusory ghost hand appeared out of nowhere and clamped Sang Que's wrist tightly to prevent her from touching the candle.

Sang Que took the bamboo tube and splashed the remaining black dog blood on it.

The ghost hand disappeared temporarily with a hiss of smoke. Sang Que pulled the candle from the long table, lit the talisman paper, and threw it at the cabinet where the drums and lanterns were placed.

Snapped!
A jar of wine then broke under the cabinet, and a raging fire instantly broke out.

Sang Que knew that she couldn't kill Ming Zhang now, so she decisively took the severed hand and rushed outside again with a jar of wine.

The wine jar was smashed at the door, the candle was thrown down, a raging fire started, and the red rope and talisman paper were all engulfed by the flames.

Sangque rushed through the flames in one step.

Feeling the scorching heat of the sun and hearing the cicadas' hoarse chirping, the mulberry bird breathed a sigh of relief, finally coming out.

Ming Zhang screamed in agony, and the fire in the house burned more and more fiercely.

Sangque went all out and took advantage of the situation to rob!

This was originally part of the plan, and it was her reward for clearing the level without taking any damage and completing the hidden mission.

Breaking the lock and rushing into the room on the right, Sang Que saw an eight-diagram mirror hanging on one wall of Yan Daozi's bedroom, a copper coin sword hanging on the other, and an old peach wood sword on the desk.

On the desk there were yellow paper, cinnabar ink, brushes, scissors, tortoise shells, copper coins, ink fountain, books and notes.

There were a few freshly dried talismans next to them, and a small bag of glutinous rice in the cabinet on the kang.

Sangque tore off the bed sheets and packed up everything he could take with him, leaving nothing behind.

Tightening the knot of the bundle on his chest, Sang Que wiped the sweat from his head and ran out carrying the small bag of glutinous rice.

The fire in the opposite house was raging and had already spread to the hall. The one-armed Mingzhang, covered in flames, rushed out. Sangque threw the half bag of glutinous rice in his hand at Mingzhang's head and forced him back into the house. The remaining glutinous rice was scattered at the door to prevent Mingzhang from running out.

Braving the scorching heat of the fire, Sang Que walked out of Yan Daozi's house. Some villagers who heard the noise gathered outside the yard and watched from afar, not daring to approach. Among them was He Shouhui.

When the villagers saw Sangque and the corpse that was still moving despite being covered in flames, they were all shocked.

They didn't expect that Yan Daozi kept corpses in the house, and they didn't expect that Sang Que, a weak woman, could deal with the zombies and burn down Yan Daozi's house.

"Yuniang?" He Shouhui saw Sang Que clearly, squeezed out from behind the crowd, and looked at her with concern.

Sang Que's eyes turned cold, and he took off the cloth from his face to wipe off the sweat and carbon dust on his face, revealing his true appearance and shouting, "Yao Yu Niang was killed by me on the way here. I am Mulan from the Divine Thief Sect!"

Just be a middle school student, this is also a helpless act.

After saying that, Sang Que quickly ran out of the yard and was about to go to the wild woods when he suddenly saw Yan Daozi running towards him angrily with an iron sword in his hand.

(End of this chapter)