It was very dark, and the night was as thick as a haze, and the darkness rose from all directions at the same time as the night, and flowed down from the heights.
The forest was quiet, not even a hint of wind, but the dead silence did not last long, and was soon broken by the ethereal sound of a flute, which drifted gently over the hillside and into the villages at the foot of the mountain.
The first to be woken up was the little grandson of the Chen family, he was less than half a year old, he was sleeping soundly with his mother's mouth, but for some reason, he suddenly opened his toothless mouth and cried loudly, waking up several members of the family.
Chen Acong sat up and asked his daughter-in-law vaguely, "What's wrong?"
The baby is uncomfortable?
” "No, Xu is startled in a dream, go to sleep, I'll feed him a bite and it'll be fine."
But when she gave it to him, he spit it out, and not only did not stop crying, but it became even louder, heartbreaking, and it made people feel distressed and panicked.
"Did you hear anything, it seemed like a flute."
Chen Ah Cong asked his daughter-in-law.
"Yes, this voice is weird, like a funeral song, by the way, is it from Sansu Temple, is it the Nine Sages?"
"I remember that the last time Uncle Sun had an accident, she played the flute, as if it was used to summon the three corpse gods, and now the flute is sound again, is it that something happened to someone's house?"
Chen Acong turned over and sat up from the bed, "No, I have to go out and have a look, I always feel that this matter is very evil." ” He put on his clothes and walked out of the courtyard gate, only to find that a lot of people had gathered outside, and the sound of squirming and talking came from the crowd, although Chen Acong didn't really hear it, he also knew what they were talking about.
He walked up to Sun Qin's side, "Qinzi, did you also hear the flute?"
” Sun Qin made a solemn face and nodded at him, "It's not just me, everyone is disturbed by the sound of this flute, the nest of chickens I raised suddenly screamed, and the chicken coop was fluttered down by them, all say that animal spirits can feel things that people can't perceive, you say, will something happen to these three Su Guan?"
” Chen Acong slapped his thigh, and said urgently: "My brother is also practicing with the Nine Sages in the Guanli, no, I have to go up and have a look." ” His call worked, and the villagers followed him towards the nameless mountain not far away, and a mighty dragon of men reached the foot of the mountain in less than half an hour, but when faced with the not so majestic hill, they stopped one after another, and none of them took another step forward.
There was a line between the mountain and the village, an invisible line, the village was a familiar world on one side, but on the other side, for some reason, it looked like it was separated by a veil, blurry, and the mountains, rocks and trees seemed to have become ghostly shadows, which made people daunting.
"Ah Cong, are you on?"
I don't know who in the crowd was the first to ask.
Chen Acong woke up like a dream, wiped the cold sweat on his forehead, "Why don't you go, you're here." ” "The flute hasn't stopped yet."
As he said, the sound of the flute is now very low, so deep that it is almost inaudible, it is like a cold snake, and now it is pressed low, but at some point, it will suddenly burst out of the old high, and coldly bite someone's neck.
"Then we have to go and see it, but don't really have something happening, we will regret it when the time comes."
As he spoke, he took the lead in walking into the mountain, Sun Qinji hung a chapter and followed closely behind him, and the others saw the two of them enter the mountain, and they also followed.
After a few steps, there was a sudden rustling sound in the grass not far ahead, as if a group of people were slowly walking in their direction.
The crowd stood still, and after a while, Sun Qin shouted forward, "Chengzhang, is it you?"
” The sound fell into the grass and did not cause any reverberation.
The rustling sound is still constant, but it sounds a little different from the sound of human footsteps, it is very slow, and the person walking seems to be dragging one foot, and the walk is not neat at all.
Sun Qin "buzzed" in her head, and looked at Ah Cong with wide eyes, "What day is today?"
” Chen Acong finally overlapped this voice with a certain part of his memory, his lips trembled a few times, but he still said the answer, "Geng Shenri." ” With a "bang", the things in the grass finally broke through the encirclement and walked out, they bent slightly, with grass roots and soil on the soles of their feet, and walked crookedly for a short time, slowly surrounding the crowd.
Sun Qin shouted "ah", and hid behind Ah Cong, Ah Cong was extremely scared, and pretended to be calm on his face, "It's okay, Sansu Guan is not far from here, they thought they were summoned by the Nine Sages, and they left after a while." ” As if to confirm his words, the sound of the flute floated from far and near, getting louder and louder, and after a while, the figure of the Nine Sages in Taoist robes appeared in people's field of vision.
When everyone saw her appear, the tension in their hearts disappeared at once, and everyone remained motionless, quietly waiting for her to summon the three corpses away.
The Nine Sages removed the flute from her lips, stared at the villagers with clear eyes for a while, and a smile even colder than Remnant Xue formed at the corner of her eyebrows, "I also wanted to look for you in the village, but I didn't expect that you came to the door by yourself, which saved my effort." ” Sun Qin didn't understand what he meant for a while, "Virtuous girl, what are you looking for us to do?"
” The smile overflowed across the Nine Sages' faces, deeper and deeper, sinking into every inch of her skin, "What to do?"
Make a sacrifice.
Oh, I forgot to mention that the three corpses don't seem to like my wooden figures very much, they are more interested in living things, so, I'm sorry. ” As soon as the words fell, she put the flute back to her lips, and the suppressed flute sounded again, and a few high-pitched syllables burst out from time to time, as if urging and encouraging the three corpses to act quickly.
Hearing this flute, the three corpses surrounding the villagers were about to move again, the circle shrank smaller and smaller, and the legs were densely attached to each other, not even a single crack was left.
"It's you, you lied to us, you lied to the whole village."
Sun Qin was unwilling and hissed her last cry.
The Nine Sages stared at her throbbing lower abdomen, and the smile on the corner of her lips became deeper and deeper: Did you see it?
What a feast on earth, don't shrink into my body anymore, come and enjoy it with your companions.
What, are you still afraid?
Haven't forgotten that?
I've said it many times, it's a mistake I made when I was young and ignorant, and after all these years, don't you understand?
” "Whew" One leg trembled out of the belly of the Nine Sages, and carefully, the toes were repeatedly probed on the ground several times before he stepped on the step and pulled the other leg out of his body.