Midnight Forced Marriage

Chapter 362 Carrion Ghoul

"Who is here?" I shouted loudly to find the headless monster.

no respond.

"Are you going? You don't want us to look for you, do you? We promise you that we won't look for you. If you let him go, we'll go down the mountain right away, okay?"

no respond.

"Hey, can't you hear..."

Alas, when I asked such words, of course there was no response. If he really couldn't hear me, how could he answer me?If you can hear me, why didn't you answer me just now?
In this stalemate, I almost despaired, "Pingnan, are you okay?"

"...It's okay." Ping Nan reluctantly replied, it didn't seem like he was struggling to answer because of suffocation, but because of fear, he didn't dare to breathe out, "Master Ji, Immortal Chu Yue, help me quickly, He... stinks to death."

"what?"

It turned out to be because of the smell?I frowned, "Pingnan, do you want to try to break free from him?"

Neither Chu Yue nor I dared to take a step. This situation is different from ordinary kidnapping. After all, ordinary robbers still have an appeal. The kidnapping is to achieve a certain purpose, and there is still an exchange condition.And now, the headless ghost in front of me doesn't even know where its mouth is, can you see it?Can you hear me?How to communicate?
who knows?
I was a little discouraged, but seeing Pingnan's painful and panicked expression, I couldn't hold back for a moment, turned around and pulled Chu Yue's sleeve, "Chu Yue, what should I do? What should I do? I really can't help it?"

"Chu'er, don't be afraid..." Chu Yue was obviously absent-minded, he took me under his arms, but kept looking at the headless monster, "Chu'er, do you smell the stench?"

"Smelly?" Hearing this, I tried my best to sniff my nose, mixed with various woody, leafy, earthy and floral fragrances, there was indeed a sour and smelly smell, so I nodded obediently, "Yes, I can smell it , It's like the smell of people who haven't bathed for a long time."

"That's it." Chu Yue said suddenly.

"Huh?" I was puzzled, but I guessed pretty well, "Chu Yue, don't tell us that he is... a rotting corpse?"

Chu Yue raised his eyebrows, and even nodded with a little appreciation.I'd rather not have his appreciation than meet a rotting ghoul.

"Hey! What are you talking about?" Seeing that we were chatting, Pingnan stared wide-eyed, as if he was no longer afraid of the motionless thing behind him, and began to scold us, "Hurry up and save me, you are planning to give up Me?"

I rolled my eyes, walked over, and approached him step by step in front of him.Scared Pingnan, as I got closer and closer, his voice became louder, "Don't come here, come any closer, he should silence you."

He was hysterical at the end, and after I still hadn't stopped, he closed his eyes like an appointment.However, nothing happened. After waiting for a while, he opened his eyes, looked at me in surprise, then looked around, and finally rolled his eyes, and his eyes fell behind him.Moving his neck again, he found that he was just stuck in a movement, and the "thing" behind him was motionless, not threatening at all.

"What's going on here?" Ping Nan didn't understand, he withdrew his head from the crook of the arm, and looked back at the "rock" holding him?
Yes, it is stone.It can also be said that just now it was indeed a living thing holding him hostage. However, during the process of our stalemate, that thing changed its position and shape again.In fact, it should be said that he has been changing.At the beginning, Pingnan saw him with sharp eyes, turning him into a stone; the next second, I discovered that he had turned into a tree; when Pingnan was disheartened and wanted to go down the mountain.He appeared in Chu Yue's sight again.It's so unpredictable, it's no longer his idea that the rotting corpses in the mountains accept the aura of the sun and the moon and turn into ghosts.

"Oh, it's a ghoul."

"What?" Pingnan had obviously heard of it before, "Is there really such a thing?"

"Of course." I sighed, "I'm afraid I have to return home today."

Pingnan was no longer afraid, squatting on the ground to examine the stone that had just transformed, or in other words, the stone that was moved by the ghoul from afar.The ghoul is different from the monsters transformed from other living beings. It is only immortal, or it is not immortal. It just absorbs the aura of the sun and the moon, but it is helpless. He moves and has some spiritual power, but he is a brainless monster.Even calling it a demon is an insult to the demon.Because carrion ghouls really have no brains, they are basically equivalent to unconscious animals with a higher IQ than plants, not to mention dogs, they may not even be as intelligent as birds and fish.

Of course, there are also some smarter ones. They have two greatest abilities. One is that they can move objects and change their souls. He can transform into any object around him and move it.Second, it will be invisible.And the one we met just now should be regarded as a doctoral student in this little trick, right?Can it be so unpredictable that even I, a magician, can't see it?It would be embarrassing to say it.Indeed, if there are rumors in the art world that a certain sorcerer will be blinded by a carrion ghost for several hours, it would be really embarrassing.

"Who would have thought that he would hold back this trick?" I murmured, a bit unable to accept my stupidity at the last moment.

"Maybe he's not holding me hostage?" Chu Yue patted me on the shoulder from behind, "Look."

"Huh?" I looked in the direction of Pingnan, he was still squatting there, checking the footprints around, yes, rotten ghosts will leave footprints, "Pingnan, when he just held you hostage, Is there any effort?"

I also asked my doubts, Ping Nan shook his head, "It's not so much a hostage, it's better to say it's... hugging me."

"Huh?" I just realized that Pingnan's body was covered in mud and smelled foul. The most important thing was that the strangle marks on his neck that I thought should be there were all clean and nothing at all, "Hey , he hugged you maybe because he fell in love with you, would you like to seduce him to come out?"

"You?" Pingnan looked up with a disgusted expression, and looked up at the thing just now, as if he was not sure. above, forming a stone encased in rotting vegetation.It's really smelly and hard, but this stone is not a simple one piece, it is rectangular, and there are various petrified tree vines on it, branching out many forks. It looks like a headless stone with many hands and many legs. monster.

However, one of the tree vines was like a bent arm. Presumably, not long after the carrion ghost landed beside Pingnan, it took advantage of the chaos and turned into something else to escape, while Chu Yue and I were still there. It is really stupid to ask him what conditions he needs before releasing him with trepidation.

"Pingnan, what were you yelling in fright just now? This thing didn't touch you at all, so you said you were held hostage?"

"I... I didn't say anything, I was just too scared to move... I also told you guys to let him go, because it stinks." Pingnan is still pinching his nose when he thinks about it, "It really stinks gone."

(End of this chapter)