Mortal Bones

"Buzz buzz buzz..."

Almost at the moment when the soul mark merged into the consciousness, accompanied by the sound of the soul trembling, a series of picture fragments appeared in Xu Taiping's mind.

Xu Taiping was no longer unfamiliar with this situation.

His mind moved, and the scene in the first picture fragment began to flow in his mind.

In the scene, two plainly dressed, eleven-year-old boys were scraping the black ash from a big pot little by little, and then carefully collected the ash and put it into the worn-out pottery bowl beside them.

After collecting a full bowl, the two put the pottery bowl on their chests to protect it, and carefully left the dark kitchen.

"Woof, woof woof!"

As soon as the two walked out of the kitchen, they were discovered by a big yellow dog guarding the yard, and began to bark non-stop.

The two young men who heard the dog barking immediately took off their clothes and wrapped the pottery bowl, then ran towards the courtyard wall with "clack clack" steps.

"Catch the thief!"

"There's a thief in the house, come out and catch the thief!"

The two men just came to the corner of the wall, and heard the sharp and piercing shouts of the people in the courtyard behind them.

Seeing this, the stronger young man suddenly stuffed the pottery bowl wrapped in his clothes into the arms of another thinner young man, and then said in an extremely urgent tone:

"Brother, hurry up, step on my back and climb over the wall!"

As he said that, the tall young man supported the wall with both hands and bent over.

Seeing this, the thin boy asked worriedly:

"Brother, what are you going to do?"

The tall boy turned his head and glared at the short boy and said:

"I told you to go, so go, hurry up!"

The thin boy nodded vigorously, then hugged the two pottery bowls filled with pot ash in his arms tightly, stepped on the back of the tall boy and climbed over the high wall.

"Brother..."

"You again? Beat me, beat me hard!"

"Bring the dog to bite, bite this bastard to death!"

"Woof, woof, woof!"

When the short boy climbed over the wall and was about to call his brother behind the wall, the sound of beating and the fierce biting of the vicious dog came from behind the wall.

The thin boy trembled when he heard the beating and biting behind the wall.

But after he looked down at the two pottery bowls in his arms, he wiped the tears from his face, and then ran away holding the two pottery bowls wrapped in clothes.

When Xu Taiping saw the figure of the young man gradually disappearing at the end of the alley, the scene in front of him suddenly darkened.

When the screen lit up again, the scene had changed to a dilapidated courtyard in the suburbs.

At this time, the afterglow of the setting sun just fell on the dilapidated house, making the courtyard surrounded by mud walls have an inexplicable sense of sacredness.

Just as Xu Taiping was curious about why the power of the great deduction allowed him to see this dilapidated house, two familiar voices suddenly came from the courtyard-

"Brother, it's time to start, and there will be no mistakes this time!"

"Yeah!"

Xu Taiping frowned and said:

"Is it the pair of brothers?"

Thinking of this, the picture in front of him suddenly flashed, and the scene in the courtyard surrounded by mud walls suddenly appeared in his sight.

In the courtyard, the two brothers, one tall and one short, stood on the east side and the other on the west side, each holding a bulging sack in their hands.

"Release!"

Following the order from the tall young man, the two brothers simultaneously opened a hole on the side of the sack, letting the black ash from the bottom of the pot flow out like a thin line.

At the same time, the two brothers began to run around the courtyard quickly according to the pattern drawn in advance.

"Hu, hu, hu..."

"Hu, hu, hu..."

When the two bags of ash had all flowed out, the two brothers had already fallen to the ground panting.

And at this time, a large and mysterious symbol pattern appeared on the open space in the courtyard.

After seeing the talisman pattern, Xu Taiping's eyes suddenly lit up and said:

"These two brothers are actually using the ash at the bottom of the pot to draw...draw a talisman to invite the gods!"

Although Xu Taiping has no achievements in talismans, he has seen many of them before, so he recognized the talisman pattern drawn by the two brothers and sisters at a glance. It is a talisman to invite the gods.

Then, the tall boy with scars on his body tried to calm his breathing and stood up.

Just at this time, the large talisman pattern for inviting the gods lit up with a burst of blue talisman patterns.

Seeing this, the tall boy immediately shouted to the short boy with excitement: "Brother, get up, the talisman is done, it's our turn, we...make a wish to invite the gods!"

Hearing this, the short boy not far away immediately hugged a jujube tree in the yard and climbed up with difficulty.

The short boy nodded with difficulty, stood up and replied:

"Brother, I, I will be, just, just fine..."

After saying this, he closed his eyes and looked up, took a long breath, and then slowly exhaled.

Then, the short boy swallowed his saliva, looked up at the jujube tree that had long lost a single jujube, and said:

"Brother, do you still remember what the red date cake made by the master tastes like?"

The tall boy was stunned for a moment, swallowed his saliva, and then shook his head vigorously and said:

"I don't remember!"

The short boy smiled, then nodded and said:

"I remember that every time you didn't eat it, the master often thought that he made it bad, and he was very sad."

The tall boy curled his lips and said:

"It just tastes bad."

At this time, a gust of cool wind blew by, causing the branches and leaves of the jujube tree to sway gently, making a fine and pleasant rustling sound.

The short boy holding the jujube tree suddenly shed two lines of clear tears from the corners of his eyes, and then cried:

"Brother, I miss you sir."

"It would be great if there hadn't been that fire, if the school was still there, if Mr. Hongli was still there."

"I will get up before dawn every day and go to morning classes."

"Be sure to finish your homework on time."

"Be sure not to make sir angry."

The tall boy didn't speak, but his gloomy and confused eyes said everything.

But immediately, the tall boy's eyes reaffirmed and he said:

"Brother, wake up. My husband was killed by them. The school was burned down by them. Sister Ping'er and Sloppy were all kidnapped and sacrificed to the demon dragon. I am lucky to be alive because of you!"

When he said this, the tall boy suddenly showed a look of determination in his eyes and continued:

"In the past few years, we brothers have been praying for food, stealing fireworks, and living like maggots until now. Why? Isn't it just to live to the age of ten? The magic of inviting gods taught by Mr. 뇾 can be given to Hong Mr. Li, do you want to take revenge on Ping'er and the others?"

When the short boy heard this, he immediately shed tears and said:

"Brother, of course I haven't forgotten it!"

As he spoke, he turned to look at the tall young man with a pale face. At the same time, he nodded firmly and said:

"Brother, let's get started."