Mantra

Chapter 72

Out of curiosity, Hongye looked at my terrified and dull expression, tugged at my hand and asked, "What is Huoweilian?"

I smiled wryly and said, "I really can't remember it unless he said it, because I haven't seen this thing before. I just heard it from my monitor. It's a kind of 'beast'."

Afterwards, I told everyone about what I knew about "Huowei Lian".

Huowei Lian, I always thought it was just a legend.And the legendary creatures are inevitably illusory.

It is said that this kind of creature will move when it hears the fireworks in the world, its tail will emit fire, it will spit out poisonous insects, it will drive away ghosts and yin, and it is good at eating foxes.

Moreover, this thing is also very powerful, it is also invulnerable to all kinds of poisons, has a fierce taste, eats intestines brutally, instinctively devours all kinds of flavors in the world, but it has a strange taste, and only eats the poison of the world's filth.

Also because it is so delicious and "dirty", in the cook business, he also has another title called "Fire Tail Breaks the God of Wealth".

"Broken God of Wealth" naturally means bankruptcy and prodigal.

In the cook business, it is a symbol of "the king of evil food, the food is tasteless, the broken pot spreads wealth, the temple is down and the stove is extinguished". of the beast".

Just such a thing, in the words of my old squad leader back then, he is the loser in the cook's profession!

In ancient times, cooks were superstitious, and it was said that anyone who saw it would even dream of this broken thing with a fire tail!Then just stop and destroy the stove by yourself, or kill yourself by wiping your neck!Otherwise, the family will be ruined and people will die without a whole body.

... So, when Old Nineteen uttered the three words "Huowei Lian", I was thinking about a question as soon as I came up... Can I die?Or, say goodbye to the industry forever?

Seeing my uncertain expression, Old Nineteen suddenly shook his head and said, "I see you are young and know a lot, but you don't have any ideas? I've reached this point! You still don't understand?"

His words woke me up instantly!
Three tables of yin banquets with big red paper, moldy ancient glutinous rice, a group of cats under the moonlight night, robbing our luggage, ruthless cat people and the lamp king... all of this is only missing the last link!
So, I speculated: "... This Huowei Lian was deliberately summoned by someone?! And this person is a cook from the Wu Zang Temple! The method of summoning is the three tables of glutinous rice feast? We just passed by to break it. It’s because of the ritual of the Yin Banquet that you provoked everything? Right?”

Old Nineteen nodded.

But I was puzzled and asked: "But why would someone recruit such a regretful and dilapidated monster? What's the use of summoning it? Is it to die?"

Old Nineteen did not immediately answer my last question, but squinted his eyes and looked out of the window of the wooden house. After a long time, he answered me: "Maybe... he is out for revenge! Human minds are too complicated. "

revenge... who?

I wanted to continue asking, but was stopped by Old Nineteen's gesture.

Because at this time, a fox's long howl suddenly came from outside the door, and after that, Old Nineteen's expression changed drastically.

He suddenly opened the door of the wooden house and went straight out, but halfway through, he turned his head and said to us: "I'll go and take care of the tails you left behind, you're absolutely safe here, leave as soon as tomorrow dawns. "

"Are you going out alone? You don't need our help?" I questioned.

Old Nineteen nodded, and at the same time pointed to the king on my bed and shouted: "Don't worry about your brother's curse, when you get to Zhao's house, find someone named 'Zhao Haipeng', that person knows how to save him! He is also one of the few good people in the Wu Zang Temple.”

Old Nineteen's words made my heart "thump" again.

Zhao Haipeng?Isn't that the name of my old squad leader?Does this self-proclaimed old nineteen know my squad leader?

What the hell does this person do?

After that, the man added: "There is one more thing I would like to remind you, for the sake of your brothers, please don't mention my name in Zhaojialou, otherwise, you can't do anything, understand?"

After he finished speaking, he ignored us again, plunged into the thick night, and evaporated.

In the cold wind and cold moon, I suddenly felt that he would not come back.

After that, we entered the boring wait.

In the silence, everyone can't sleep, but everyone is silent, so what can they say?We are just inexplicably drawn into a chaotic circle.To deal with everything passively, understand everything, but don't know the ins and outs of the truth.

to guess?I don't have the energy.

During the period, I got up and took out the luggage that Wang Hou took back with his life, found some clothes from it, and changed them for everyone, and picked up the luggage by the way, and found that although I lost cigarettes, a lot of clothes, and food, but fortunately suppressed the free food Gu Most of the medicinal materials are still there.

Let's talk about the rest at the old squad leader's house.

In this way, we waited, waiting for the moment of sunrise and dawn.

But at the moment when the dawn was approaching... I still fell asleep without disappointment.

So, I had that dream again, the dream in which the old squad leader chopped off my head with a kitchen knife.

I dreamed... I came to the porch in front of the old squad leader's house again. Unsurprisingly, the old squad leader was still welcoming me with a kitchen knife in his hand. The old kitchen knife was still heavily stained with blood.Abnormally dazzling in the sun.

In fear, I shook hands and hugged the old squad leader, but just as we were about to part, the old squad leader suddenly put a kitchen knife in front of me.

The old squad leader told me in a tired voice that he was very happy to see me, and specially gave me a family kitchen knife as a gift, hoping that I would accept it.

Although I had the experience of being "cut" by the old squad leader last time, but I don't know why, I still said as accurately as if I was acting in a movie script, I don't want it. , even if you hack me to death, I can't take it.

Then, no accident, the old squad leader raised the kitchen knife and told me to accept it. If I don’t accept it, he will hack me to death with the knife...

But just when the old squad leader raised his knife and was about to cut me, he suddenly looked up and looked behind me, and then his expression changed, and he suddenly retracted the knife that was raised above his head.

At that time, I felt very strange.

So I shook the old squad leader's arm and asked him: "Old squad leader! Why didn't you cut me! You didn't cut me! How could I wake up!"

"Hehe", the old squad leader smiled helplessly at me, then gently pushed me away and said, "No, after you come, let's drink for a few days. And I... I'm still waiting to smoke you for me." The cigarettes you brought! Beidaihe! Remember?"

After the old squad leader finished speaking, he turned his head and went back to the entrance of his own house. No matter what I called, he ignored me.

I wanted to chase after him, but as soon as I took a step, I was suddenly pulled to death by a hand stretched out from behind.

Immediately afterwards, I was woken up by the owner of that hand, Xian Hongye.

Hongye shook me slightly, when I opened my sleepy eyes, she smiled sweetly and said, "Old Tian, ​​the sun is drying my ass, let's go."

At this time, I suddenly realized that everyone had already packed their bags, and Zhao Hong even carried the unconscious Wang Hou, panting, and was looking at me expectantly.

He was exhausted and clearly needed my help.

The man named Old Nineteen did not come back as expected.

Seeing Zhao Hong's strenuous effort, I smiled helplessly, sat up, and helped him to support the crumbling Wang Hou.

But when I got up, I suddenly discovered that my injuries...at least 80.00% healed.

In astonishment, I looked up at Hongye, and confirmed with some excitement: "This injury? Is it okay? I'm not dreaming, am I?!"

Hong Ye smiled and nodded, imitating Old Nineteen's tone and said, "This is the fox's reward, right? We helped them kill the Lantern King, so they saved everyone."

This, perhaps, is the only good news I've heard in days.

Without the trouble of toxins and pain, I immediately felt relaxed and happy, and let out a long mouthful of stale air in my chest.Even Wang Hou, who was carried on his shoulders, was no longer as dead as before.

Afterwards, Zhao Hong and I hummed songs from our time in the army, Xiong Jiu pushed open the wooden door with high spirits, and continued our journey.

Outside the wooden door, the first thing that attracts the eyelids is the hills and valleys that rise and fall one after another in the Yimeng Mountains in the far sky.Among those groups, I saw the nearest one lying in front of us. In addition to the flat land on the top of the mountain, there are many densely packed "stone pillars" and "stone figures" of different sizes.

Suddenly, that is the Shirengu we are going to!Are we finally here?This journey is really comparable to Tang Monk learning Buddhist scriptures
But just when I was sighing in my heart, I suddenly heard Xian Hongye beside me shouting in surprise: "Look!"

Then, she held out her hand.

Following the direction indicated by the red leaves, I immediately looked over.

Immediately, my pupils tightened!
how so?

When I looked back from the perspective, I suddenly saw a white hazy figure of a car behind the weeds outside the wooden house.

Isn't that our pickup?
Judging from my point of view, the pickup truck outside the woodland is no more than a hundred meters away from our line of sight.Seeing this, we actually just took a big circle in the woods last night!

Starting from the original point, but back to the original point.

"Why is this?" Xian Hongye was shocked and puzzled: "When Lao Nineteen and I came out of the wooden house, I remembered that it was full of miscellaneous forests and shrubs, and we walked for a long time, and we couldn't reach the edge at all, but I didn’t expect this pickup to be.”

Listening to Hongye's words, I seemed to think of something.

So, I turned around silently and glanced at the wooden house behind me.

The house was built under the cliff of a low hill. The wooden house was very simple, without any decorations, except that there was a black lantern under its eaves, gently swaying in the wind.

I looked at the little lantern dyed black, smiled helplessly, then turned around, and carried Wang Hou together with Zhao Hong to our pickup.

Around the pickup, as I expected, everything was gone except for the shattered glass.The stones on the seats, the three banquet tables in the middle of Old Qi Road, and the moldy glutinous rice all over the floor.

Everything disappeared, as if in a dream.

After Zhao Hong settled down with Wang Hou, facing everything that quietly disappeared, he kept asking us if we were dreaming.He turned around and looked for the wooden house where he came, but found that no matter what, he couldn't find it.

I smiled, patted him on the shoulder and said, "Don't look for it, the place where we stayed yesterday was not built by people at all."

"What?" Zhao Hong asked me in amazement.

"What? I don't know anything! To be precise, I want to ask others what you said." I replied sadly.

In all fairness, there are still many things we don't understand about what happened last night, such as who buried the dead cat that Wang Hou threw on the ground?Why did Hongye's mobile phone end up in the mouth of the Bright Lantern King?What is a cat person?Why is Wang Hou's mobile phone placed on the altar of the Yinbing Tomb?Who is it that arranged the Yin Banquet and came to summon Huowei Lian?
But who do I ask?All these questions, the only one you can ask is the guy named Old Nineteen, right?But is he a human or a goblin...we can't figure it out.

Maybe it's because I'm tired, I didn't think deeply about anything, what I have in my heart at the moment is just a black lantern and a name called Old Nineteen.

Soon, we took a pick-up truck, followed the flat Laoqi Road under the rising sun, and arrived at Zhaojialou, Shirengu, which haunted me forever and ever.

There, my old squad leader was waiting for me, maybe the Lantern King and the cat-body man were waiting for me too.

In short, in order to make Wang Hou sober, to understand the free food Gu in our body, and to help the old squad leader solve the problem in front of him.

We must come, no matter what.

[The second part of "Curse Eating", Lunan ghost food, end. 2016.3.26】

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