The Witch of Xiangxi

Chapter 25 Underwater
Xia Xiangxi asked in surprise: "You mean grandpa and the others fell into the underground river?"

Ma Po said: "It should be like this! When I showed your grandfather the incense, I only saw a cloud of white mist. I didn't understand it at that time, but now I understand it. It's not fog but water. Your grandfather and the others should just see it." Under water."

When Ma Po said this, Xia Xiangxi also remembered that Qi Hao's ghost once showed a puddle of water in the jade cup.When I mentioned it to Ma Po, Ma Po immediately said that Qi Hao should have seen it a long time ago.However, if Grandpa and the others fell into the underground river, would they still be alive?
At this time, the paper cow was useless, so Ma Po patted it on the back, and it walked away slowly.

Ma Po found a stone by the pond, bit her index finger, and drew an abstract figure on the stone with her blood.This is actually a spell, but Xia Xiangxi didn't know until later.

Grandpa also draws talismans and writes some Taoist exorcism spells on specific paper.But that's called a talisman.It is known as "three mountain talismans".Talismans are generally used to drive away evil spirits.Amulets are not. Amulets are used by wizards. In addition to helping people get rid of diseases and evil spirits, spells can also harm people.

In most societies, spells are considered to serve evil purposes.On the one hand, wizards can also use spells to fight against evil forces and protect themselves and others.On the other hand, wizards also use spells to hurt others with subjective hatred.

Miao witches, in particular, are considered evil, because most witchcraft sects believe that they are born to be the incarnation of the devil, born with the power of the devil and full of anger and jealousy.The same is true, the spells drawn by Ma Po are absolutely unmatched by Grandpa's skills.

When Ma Po threw the stone with the spell drawn on it into the pond, green ones, floating like water plants, floated up from the bottom of the water.Afterwards, the water in the pond was like a boiling pot, bubbling and churning, "gurgle, gurgling".In the turbulent water, there are countless green algae that look like green threads, swirling and churning with the current.

Xia Xiangxi backed away involuntarily. She was frightened by those water-weed-like monsters, and she was afraid of getting close to these terrifying green monsters.

Ma Po said it was a water ghost.

Xia Xiangxi shuddered, his feet were stepping on the loose soil, his center of gravity was unstable, and he almost slipped down the pond.She knew water ghosts in her hometown.Know that "water ghost" is commonly known as "water monkey".When she was a child, she often listened to her grandfather's instructions not to go to the pond outside the village to play in the water easily. People have been drowned in that pond, and there are water ghosts in it.

Xia Xiangxi said, "Are you saying that is Aban?"

Ma Po shook her head and said, "Only people who are drowned can become water ghosts. A Ban was beaten to death, his body was thrown into the water, and his soul was also thrown into the water, but he is not a real water ghost. "

Xia Xiangxi froze for a moment before saying, "Then, can this water ghost help us?"

Ma Po replied, "Yes!" Otherwise, she would not have found it.

Next, Xia Xiangxi found out that Ma Po wanted to use the water ghost to find the entrance of the underground river, and she wanted to follow her to the underground river to find Grandpa and the others.

No one wants to save Grandpa more than Xia Xiangxi, but after hearing Ma Po's thoughts, she immediately stopped her. Now she is just guessing that Grandpa and the others fell into the underground river. No one knows what is in the bottom of the water. If Ma Po There is no way to come up from the bottom of the water. Isn't that another life?

Ma Po said, "It's okay, you take a good look at my body on the shore, and I will use the avatar of the soul to go underwater to have a look."

In this way, Ma Po used the method of leaving her body to follow the water ghost to go underwater.Xia Xiangxi guarded Ma Po's body and waited anxiously for more than two hours before seeing Ma Po's body reacting, knowing that Ma Po had returned.

After Ma Po woke up, she said that she saw Grandpa and the others, and they were really at the bottom of this pond.It's just that they didn't fall directly from this pond, but from the upper reaches of this pond, from a collapsed tomb.It was then washed to the bottom of this pond.

What Ma Po said at this time is not very detailed. The real situation is that Grandpa, He Xuan and Marie fell into a collapsed tomb during the process of tracking A Ban. The tomb was mistakenly buried on the underground river. , the floating soil was less and less washed by the water, and the cemetery collapsed. After Grandpa and the others fell in, they accidentally drew out the tomb owner who had turned into a zombie.That zombie had been buried for hundreds of years at least, and turned into a kind of zombie—a flying corpse.

Flying corpses are often zombies that are more than a hundred years old or even hundreds of years old. They move swiftly, leaping from houses to trees, jumping vertically like flying, absorbing souls without leaving trauma.Grandpa and the three of them were sucked by the flying corpse and turned into living dead.The living dead are between the living and the dead, so hell can't find out their names, and Ma Po can't ask where they were born.

Ma Po asked Xia Xiangxi to follow her back to Diaojiaolou.Ma Po went back to her room and started making paper figurines again, and wanted to use paper figurines to help subdue the flying corpse that sucked the spirits of Grandpa and He Xuan.She asked to go to the third floor to open the old pagoda tree box by herself.Ma Po said that if something unexpected happens again when opening the box this time, Grandpa and He Xuan will not be there to help clean it up like last time, so let Xia Xiangxi ask for blessings!
In order to save his grandfather, Xia Xiangxi had the courage to go down the mountain of swords and fire.When opening the box, Xia Xiangxi gritted her teeth. She didn't know why she had hallucinations and went crazy when she opened this pagoda wood box last time. , took the treasure from it, so as to help Ma Po go to grandpa.

The moment the box was opened, Xia Xiangxi's legs went limp. She was really afraid that the situation like last time would happen again.

As a result, both Ma Po and herself exaggerated the consequences of the incident.This time, when Xia Xiangxi opened the box, nothing happened.She finally saw clearly what was inside the box, a sheepskin book, a crystal ball, some strangely shaped jade objects, and some ancient women's jewelry hairpins.

Xia Xiangxi was not in the mood to study the contents of the box one by one at this time, she hurriedly found a jade vessel made of jade that Ma Po said was like a wine jar in the box.

The box was only big, and Xia Xiangxi easily found a jade pot like Ma Po said. This jade pot was not very big, it was more than 20 centimeters in height and about 20 centimeters in diameter.Xia Xiangxi scooped up the jade pot.After holding the jade pot in her hand, she heard a movement inside, as if there was something alive inside. She was curious for a while, but forgot what Ma Po said not to let her open the jade pot casually. He reached out and picked up the jade plug on the jade pot.

Suddenly there was a sound of "crash" and the sound of water being brought up.When Xia Xiangxi saw it, it was too late to react, her head was too close to the jade pot, and it was too late to dodge!A white thing jumped out of the jade pot!

(End of this chapter)