Yin Yang Tomb Raider

Chapter 53 The Calling Bell, Flying Sand

As soon as I finished speaking, I felt the wind whizzing around me, and a gust of wind blew over, and my body was cold and cold. Tao Ran suddenly stood in front of me, and carefully lit the brazier, and the light rang out in the darkness again. Suddenly there are a few more shadows!
Their hands and feet hang down stiffly, and their bodies are wrapped in black cloth like bandages. Their bodies are flat, very short and thin, and their eyes are two empty holes. Slime, and no sharp claws, but when they approached, all the pores on my body opened, and the heat in my body turned into cold air and "sizzled" out...

Tao Ran's hand touched the back of my hand, and his body felt a chill. At this moment, there were screams from above his head, one after another, which made people feel agitated. The seven zombies wrapped in black cloth in front of them Just staring at it, suddenly, one of them rushed towards us, and it was still screaming!
A gust of wind blew over, the skin on his face tightened, and Meng Luo's body was already moving. Tao Ran suddenly took out a bell and shook it, and the zombie who was only half a meter away from me stopped, and I clearly He could smell a fragrance from his body, faintly, it was not the rancid smell of ordinary zombies.

This zombie stopped, and the six behind him also stood still, Tao Ran said: "Go, don't touch their bodies, otherwise it will be invalid."

Meng Luo was also dumbfounded. I didn't expect Tao Ran to have the ability to manipulate zombies. The four of us carefully walked past the six zombies. Suddenly, Lao Jiu muttered, and I knew something was wrong. Look, the cloth strips on one of the zombies were loose and fell to the ground. Lao Jiu stepped on it impartially. He looked up at me, and there was a sound in his throat: "It's not good..."

I didn't need him to tell me that the situation was not good, I saw that the zombie who was standing still suddenly moved, its head began to move slowly, and slowly looked towards Lao Jiu, who happened to meet the zombie's eyes!
Tao Ran's face was already frozen there. Seeing Lao Jiu and the zombie eye to eye, he strode forward, and the bell in his hand rang again, and the zombie looked towards the place where the sound came from. Taking advantage of this time, Lao Jiu ran over quickly, stood beside me, and touched his heart with one hand: "Ge, you scared me to death."

That bell is now our talisman, and Tao Ran knows how to manipulate it. I found that she only rings once every time she rings the bell, never more!
After one ring, Tao Ran put his finger on it, prohibiting the bell from ringing continuously, and then led us back. The three majestic men are hiding behind the girl. Although it is a bit ugly, there is no way around it Finally, under Tao Ran's guidance, we stayed away from the seven zombies and came to a sunken cave, where we nestled temporarily.

"Officer Tao, why don't we just leave here?" Lao Jiu asked.

"The time is wrong." Tao Ran said: "You can only leave here after the cock crows, otherwise, the more we move, the more dangerous we will be, so please stay here temporarily and don't move."

"What are you holding in your hand, the summoning bell?" Munro asked curiously.

The ancients believed that people have souls after death, so there is a theory of evocation. If a family member of a person who used to live by the sea went out to fish and was buried in the sea, his relatives would hold the evocation flag and sing the evocation song to let their family members go out to fish and die. The return of the soul, this call for the soul is generally used on people who have no body or can't find the body. The soul call bell is a funeral object and is connected with the dead.

This soul calling bell is actually a bell stained with the blood of relatives. It was placed in the coffin when it was put in the coffin, which means that someone cares about it, and the soul must have a refuge. If it rings loudly, the bell is only effective in Tao Ran's hand. When we hold it in our hand, it is dumb and won't ring at all.

"Those who were born on the red sand day, died on the black sand day, and buried in the flying sand will become zombies. Is this a flying sand?" Mengluo said suddenly: "The corpse absorbs yang energy, and the corpse is killed by people's anger. Change, when a person dies, the soul disperses and stagnates. The human soul is kind and evil, and the human soul is stupid. The soul dominates the body. When the soul leaves the body, it will become a ghost zombie. Their nails and hair It will continue to grow, but these zombies have no claws, which are completely different from ordinary zombies."

"They died by taking Gu poison, and their yang qi was sealed after death. This is a complete process." Tao Ran said: "It is completely different from the zombies you understand in the usual way. They are the guardians here."

"Who is in the green coffin?" I asked.

Tao Ran closed his eyes: "This is the secret of our village, anyone who knows will die."

I exchanged glances with Lao Jiu, and Meng Luo said suddenly: "I don't know what happened to the four people above."

"If you open the coffin lid, you will definitely die." Tao Ran said, "After dawn, you can go up and have a look and you will know."

I have been nestling here, dozing off slowly, and finally, I dozed off leaning on Lao Jiu's shoulder...

When I was falling asleep, a cold feeling came over me, my eyelids were still moving, Meng Luo had already moved, and I sprinkled stone powder on the outside, a thick layer, wishing to block the whole space behind the stone powder , Seeing this posture, my heart that just fell down rose again: "What's going on?"

"Those zombies are going to be active again soon." Tao Ran said, "I'm good at Gu, and there's no way to deal with them other than the summoning bell, and I can't deal with them either."

"Our anger has affected these zombies, and they will find them by following their scents. The summoning bell can only be controlled for a short time, and..." Meng Luo glanced at Tao Ran, and said, "It can be regarded as letting these zombies know that holding the bell Most people are their descendants and have a blood connection, so they will be merciful, which is also one of the signs that these zombies are spiritual."

Lao Jiu and I looked at Tao Ran at the same time. If these zombies are related to her by blood, they are not her ancestors!
Tao Ran looked calm, holding the bell tightly in his hand all the time, and at this moment, I heard the sound of "plopping" footsteps. These zombies do have bodies, and they are different from the ghosts I saw before. It's different, they have five sense organs, internal organs are also there, and now they even have a little spirituality. The footsteps are getting closer, and Tao Ran's hand is raised slightly, wanting to ring the bell...

Munro pressed her hand: "Don't move."

Tao Ran actually listened to Mengluo's words and put down his hands. The seven zombies walked over, yes, they walked. Generally, the bones and joints of zombies can no longer bend flexibly, and they move slowly when walking, but the seven zombies walked slowly. The zombie's knees can still bend, and it is precisely because of this that the black bandages on his body are loosened. The old nine is lucky to step on it, right?

They are seven in a row, very neat, and when they walk, the gap between each other is just right, as if someone has set a distance for them, and they will automatically execute it. How is this different from coding?
Under the black bandages, their noses were also tightly wrapped. The slightly raised bandages made the shape of their noses clear at a glance. Their noses seemed to be still moving, as if they were exhaling!I took a deep breath and pinched Tao Ran: "Hey, they are still alive, right? Didn't you say there is still a breath of Yang Qi?"

Tao Ran turned to look at me. Under the faint firelight, her face was half dark and half bright, and she looked extremely mysterious. Finally, she glared at me: "Although there is still a breath of yang, but the heart has long stopped beating." Now, you are disrespecting our ancestors if you say you can't live!"

I closed my mouth, one is that good men don’t fight women, and the other is that the seven zombies are close in front of me, and the fragrance from my body is pressed to my nose, my nerves are tense, and I stare at them The first one stopped suddenly, and seemed to have no way to go. I guessed that the stone powder on the ground had blinded them.

During the confrontation with them, my mind was not idle. I kept thinking about the relationship between this place and Xiang Yu. Is there any clue hidden in this place, or is the broken jade here?Otherwise, why did those people come here? When I was thinking about it, I was pulled by Munro: "Be careful, they seem to have feelings for you."

Yinwu is really sensitive to the presence of light characters, the leader of the zombie has moved over, it is the one with the cloth strip off its feet, Lao Jiu made a "gudong" sound in his throat, and his eyes became sharp. The zombies came over in an orderly manner, and I saw the legs of the leader zombie, the strips of cloth were hanging down, and the flesh inside was not rotten at all!
It is not rotten, but it is a little dry, like the surface of a fruit lacking in moisture. When I was in shock, the zombie's hand stretched out, only one centimeter away from my eyeball!

(End of this chapter)