Chapter 135 – Swarm of Ghosts

I spent a total of more than five hours on this journey, I would love to speed up, but for one thing, because of the darkness, even if I was in a hurry, I didn't dare to drive too fast, and for another, it was too late in the night for me to drive by myself, dozing off long ago, and from time to time, I needed to smack myself a few times with my big mouth to keep myself from falling asleep.

When I arrived, almost has been four o'clock in the morning, still outside the county, towards the city to look at, the sky is full of thick clouds, will all the moonlight are blocked. The whole city as far as the eye can see, but it is black, not even a little light, like the whole city blackout signs, in this way, my heart that kind of uneasiness and strengthened a few points, suddenly doze off are completely awake, nerves tense, for fear of suddenly meet something.

I entered the city, found that the surrounding cold silence to death, even if it is now in the heat of the summer, but still can not help but feel the cold, in the collar of the neck shrunk a little.

I was careful all the way, cold sweat on the forehead are out, this night is a little unusual, perhaps because of the power outage, according to the usual, even if it is late at night, will always meet one or two refused to return home night owls, or one or two rushed to the car.

But I traveled all the way, but did not even see a silhouette, giving me the feeling, as if I broke into a dead city in general, the atmosphere is particularly appalling.

I turned on the high beams, the road in front of me shone brightly, and everything in front of me was extraordinarily clear in my eyes.

But when I rounded into the streets of the old city, just walked not far, suddenly saw the road ahead, two or three gray-white silhouettes, is walking aimlessly toward the front, they are inconsistent, staggering steps, as if at any time will fall, but is such a state, step by step toward the front.

I hurriedly stepped on the brakes, the surrounding cold, so that my exhaled breath became white mist. I did not dare to continue forward, my eyes looked straight at them, my mind was spinning fast, but I could not think of a single solution.

I thought to try a different road, the heart just made a decision, the front of the ghosts suddenly disappeared, I stared wide-eyed at the front, and waited for so many seconds, there was no trace of those ghosts.

I took a long breath, thinking that this is probably the kind of passing ghosts, so I did not pay attention to it. Who knows I continue to step on the gas, the car came a whimpering sound, but how can not start. My heart hate cursed, which just want to get out of the car to check, turned his head and suddenly saw me beside the originally empty passenger seat, suddenly more another person.

He is an old man of age, his face is blue, his body seems to be nailed to the seat, the posture is extraordinarily straight. Found me looking at him, suddenly "brush" back to the head, scared me body to push back violently, head hit the car window, pain I can not help but cry out!

I hold back the pain, vigilant look at the old man, but the corner of my eye slant, only to find a row of seats behind the car, I do not know when to start, but crowded with ghosts, the number of than I saw earlier on the street more than, each and this old man, long with an iron-green face, stagnant eyes, tilted his head, slowly face from the back seat there to stretch over to me to see more and more close.

I was terrified, even breathing has been short of breath, eyes have been looking at them, do not dare to move away, but the hand behind the back constantly groping, and so they one by one to less than ten centimeters in front of me, I finally heard behind me, "pop" a light sound, my hand behind the back of the force, the door suddenly opened. My feet stomped, the whole person then crashed backward, fell backwards from the car.

This fall can fall me not light, shoulder and back directly hit the ground, do not know how many scratches. I do not care so much, immediately get up from the ground, also do not care about the ghosts in the car, do not even dare to look at a glance, directly towards the direction of the old house to run.

But not a moment, I just want to run out of the range of headlights can illuminate, suddenly heard a burst of "hee hee" laughter, a array followed by a burst, in this street echoed open. My footsteps stalled, bewildered toward the surrounding look, but did not see what odd things.

But immediately after that laughter, suddenly a round thing rolled out from the darkness of the street, a hit in my legs.

I looked down and realized it was a plastic ball, and just as I was about to ignore it, I saw a short girl standing in the street beyond the light. I could not see her appearance, only a gap in the light, she wore a pair of small cloth shoes, a little dirty, and finally, on the body is a red dress, in this dark night especially eye-catching.

My heart tightened, busy swallowing a mouthful of spit, in front of this inhuman and ghostly girl, behind the street is full of ghostly shadows, immediately blocked my way!

That cheeky laughter was unceasing, and finally the girl suddenly said, quickly give me back my ball!

Looked at the feet of the ball a glance, the heart of the repressed hard, but still slowly squatting body, will pick up that ball, but in the hand, previously or that plastic texture, but I just want to throw out towards that girl, the feeling in the hand suddenly changed!

My hand held, as if the dense silk threads, look down, inevitably sucked in a breath of cold air, this ball even turned into a human head! I plunged one hand into her hair and was gripping the scalp of this head tightly. I was shocked in my heart, my hand did not hold back, a slight shake, this head fell from the hand, plopped down on the ground, not at all like earlier will roll.

Seeing that I let go of my hand, the darkness out of the little girl shrieked, suddenly striding towards me ran over.

I subconsciously backed up, this street is too narrow, so I did not walk a few steps, and then stuck on the door of a house.

When the girl ran closer, I saw clearly that the child had no head! She cackled and cackled and ran to the position where I was standing before, and immediately picked up the head on the ground, and then turned around and walked towards me step by step!

I realized that the head was also the face of a little girl, with a lot of dust on it, and the skin on her face was gray and purple. Eyes were covered by hair quite a lot of, by the little girl held in the hands, suddenly issued a voice and the previous that laughter, said, let's play ball together ……

I was speechless when I heard this, although my heart is still afraid, but I feel that this ghost is small in age and does strange things, it is completely a middle-aged ghost, just think about the last time we came, all the way to the flat, Ting Ting has always said that it is too clean, and now once the human face tree is destroyed, anything strange and weird has popped up.

But this girl in front of me to see I did not respond, suddenly angry, the human head in the hands of a sudden scream, the face has changed shape, I was busy to cover my ears, turned around and ran forward, good thing she also did not catch up, to let me feel thankful. But I just ran out a few steps, suddenly despair, I saw not far from the road leading to my old house, are all walking silhouettes, as if the party, staggering, scattered along the surrounding roads. I couldn't even count how many ghosts were in front of me.

My footsteps a moment on the soft, the mood immediately hit rock bottom, this scene, although not when the night of the hundred ghosts to be majestic and horrifying, because the ghosts and monsters, mostly the kind of wandering souls that can not hurt people, may be the neighborhood of people who just died, was the face of the tree to be sucked up.

But among them, there is no lack of some strange spirits, just like the little girl just now, that kind of death, say there is no danger at all, beat me to death will not believe.

I don't dare to go over, can only stretch my neck, towards the front of the old mansion, but that side of the black pressure, out of those saving silhouettes, can't see anything clearly. I have no choice but to rush forward and shout, calling the name of the little ghost and Xia Ruxuan. But this shout, all the ghosts and monsters around froze for a moment, and then look at that appearance, actually towards me over!

I really want to slap myself two slaps, slowly backward, but still called the little ghosts their names, this is my only way, but wait a while, in addition to the ghosts gathered around more and more outside, and finally did not get their response.

I was so anxious that I didn't even dare to think if the two of them had died in the house. I could only think in the best possible way, such as the little ghosts, they had already escaped when the sphinx tree was destroyed.

I comforted myself and decided to wait for the ghosts and monsters here to disperse a bit before coming back, but as soon as I turned around, that little girl from earlier was actually standing behind me again with a cheeky smile, and even the street that I had come all the way over was filled with ghosts and shadows, and they came out from nowhere, surprisingly, they blocked all the paths all of a sudden, and there wasn't even a single gap to escape.

I immediately panicked, watched myself surrounded by a group of ghosts in the center, this probably do not have to wait until the time of the ghost festival, I will hang here first.

In the past, when I watched TV, I had never considered the feeling of being surrounded by a group of people, let alone ghosts now. It was only now that I realized how helpless that feeling of being surrounded in the middle was. I was breathing rapidly, looking around, I couldn't even find a pathway, those ghosts were getting closer and closer, surrounding a circle, I didn't know whether I was shivering because of fear or cold, my hands and feet were constantly shivering.

My heart seemed to have jumped to the mouth of my throat, and my spirit was on the verge of collapsing, I prepared myself in my heart, and wanted to rush out, as if I were fighting for my life, I believed that there would always be monsters that I could defeat with my bare hands.

But I just wanted to move, I heard a "rustling" sound from the top of my head, I just think this sound is a little familiar, just want to look up to see, suddenly "pop", I do not know what fell from the street lamps on the street, no light, and smashed on my body. I subconsciously wanted to avoid it.

I subconsciously wanted to dodge, but when I saw what was on my body, I suddenly froze for a moment, it was a bowl-sized green snake, his scales rubbed against my skin, so hard that it stung a little.

But this green snake looked at me with a pair of yellow eyes, the snake letters in his mouth kept gulping, then raised his head and grew his mouth towards the ghosts around him, letting out a warning hiss.

I looked incredulously at this green snake's reaction, my body suddenly had a jolt, snapped out of it, and shouted at it, Ding Ding?

Chapter 136: Ancestor

Hearing my shout, this green snake's head violently turned around, yellow eyes and my four eyes, but its mouth is wide open, the appearance is particularly hideous. I was looking at its heart hairy, do not dare to move casually, even if this big snake coiled in my body, feel particularly heavy, I can only straighten my body, exercise enough strength, do not let myself fall down.

I was very skeptical of this snake's mental state. All I knew was that it should be a part of what Tintin had told me earlier, that it had been swallowed into the human-faced tree when the Impermanent first appeared.

But whether it was more of Ding Ding's consciousness or that green snake's consciousness that was in it, this I couldn't decide, so I just let it coil around, not daring to make any other moves.

The ghosts and shadows around are still gathering, leaning close, the snake seems to feel threatened, brushing to turn its head, hissing sound in its mouth, seemingly threatening in general. Stopping them from advancing.

I see that it now also has no intention of harming me, can not help but tentatively point in the direction of the old mansion, said, I want to go to that place.

The green snake turned its head to look at me, the snake letter in the mouth constantly gulping, but half a day no action, making me very puzzled, I do not know whether it understands what I mean.

I see this is not the way, can only slowly move the steps, the heart hard deflated a breath, toward the old mansion side of the look, ready to pull the leg towards that side of the rush, sort of from these ghosts within the shadows, bumping open a road to.

Thinking of this, I simply recognize the road, close my eyes, without a little hesitation, fiercely clenched his teeth, step towards the ghosts rushed out.

I only hear the wind whistling in my ears, body a burst of cold, I do not know this way to run, exactly from how many ghosts of the body to penetrate through, although the feeling of extraordinarily bizarre, but I vaguely happy, at least I still have to escape the opportunity.

But the brain just so thought, suddenly "bang" a moment. I don't know what I hit, I feel soft, but because of inertia, I fell directly backward, hard on the ground.

That green snake as if stimulated, brushed and tightened its body, strangling me to the point that my blood rushed up, my face was hot, vaguely itchy and painful. I was busy opening my eyes, and didn't care about the snake, just looked towards the front, trying to figure out what I had hit.

Which know this look, I can not help but freeze, I have never seen this kind of thing, but now what kind of monster appears, I no longer feel strange.

I fell in the middle of a pile of Yin souls, and directly in front of me is, indeed, a big dog, very big, with three heads, all black, when it a mouth, it is enough to swallow me alive. This guy's name was Hell's Three-Headed Dog, which Tintin told me later.

Its three heads were raised high, its face was very hideous, three mouths, all of which were slobbering, its mouth emitted that kind of canine chants before a vicious dog bites a person, and its six eyes were dripping and spinning, and in the end, all of its attention, was placed on my body.

My heart tightened, pondering that if I were to be bitten by this thing, I would be crippled for life if I didn't die! My brain has not turned a corner, I heard the middle of the dog head toward me roared, the sound of the big, horrifying, I just feel and eardrums raw pain, even the surrounding spirits are panicked back to the sides, suddenly let a raid open space to that three-headed dog to make a path.

I hurriedly climbed up from the ground, my brain turned fast, but just can not think of any way to fight at that time, look at its reminder, I am sure that it is not a rival, if it bites …… still do not know who bites who!

Which know me on the body of the green snake as if stimulated, slowly loose my body, sliding down to the ground above, climbing in the middle of me and the three-headed dog, high up the head, make a set to attack the posture. Just it took the body, only a little bigger than me, and compared with the three-headed dog, it is the difference between a match and a water brush.

But this green snake also did not show a look of fear, I guess it is poisonous in the body, so I swear, maybe the reaction is fast, but also let the three-headed dog eat a big loss.

I think I have been waiting here is not a solution, see have come to the old mansion before, only so many steps away, can be rushed to the gate.

Therefore, I half crouched down and made a running posture, ready to rush into the house with a breath. But as soon as I moved, the three-headed dog went berserk and sprang up, making a gesture to bite me! But the green snake is not vegetarian, open mouth, body twist, slipped in front of the three-headed dog, the three-headed dog saw the situation is not good, slightly flashed body, although its dog mouth did not want to reach me, but I was its huge body collision, the whole person flew backward, violently smashed into the wall, pain I can not catch my breath.

I tried to get up from the ground with great difficulty, but when I reached out and pressed my hand on the ground, I suddenly bumped into something very hard, and when I gazed at it, I realized that under my hand, there was a copper bell, as if it happened to fall by my side.

My heart was happy, immediately recognized that this is the little kid's soul bell, but that instant, the mood suddenly turned straight down, the soul bell fell here, does it mean that the little kid and their two had some kind of accident?

However, the current situation, can not allow me to think about what, I only recalled in the Xie family ancestral temple brat's action, this invocation bell seems to have two different roles, one is like the brat before when he just made a move, that the sound of the sound, and directly knocked my soul out of the living, the second is to hold in the hands of the impermanent, the ghosts around the past towards him to gather.

I was worried that I wasn't using it correctly, and that after shaking it, the effect would be counterproductive, so I tried hard to recall the little ghost's posture of ringing the bell. Grabbing the bell in my hand, I gently shook it.

I originally still doubt that this bell in my hands is not also have a role, but that light bell ringing, give me the feeling, as if out of thin air raised a gale, hoo one, from my nearest three-headed dog and the green snake, all at the same time flew out a distance, hard to smash in the side of the street.

I look effective, the heart suddenly excited up, stand straight body, hands constantly shaking up, around those ghosts heard this sound ringing, suddenly as a tide, have backed up and go, three-headed dog wailing, dare not approach over.

I glanced at the green snake, it did not hesitate, turned its head and wanted to cruise towards the darkness of the street only, in a short while, disappeared in my sight.

I shook the bell on one side, one side groping the wall towards the door of the old mansion, wait until the door, the heart is only relieved, but also at this time, I suddenly heard a sound of people coming from the house.

I have never heard that voice, exceptionally strange and cold, with a hint of impatience in the words.

I only heard the person in the house shouting towards the outside, saying, "Who is it that is making a racket outside, making a lot of noise, making people irritable!

I couldn't help but freeze for a moment, my heart was puzzled, and I was busy pressing against the doorway to look into the house. Only see inside the green light hidden, seems to be the light of ghost fire, but can not see clearly in the end what some things.

But just a short time later, suddenly heard a shallow footsteps, toward the door this side of the room. I was startled in my heart, and just wanted to back away, when suddenly a creak came from the door, and the door was opened at once.

I looked at the person who opened the door, a light-colored clothes, wrinkles crawling all over his face, but when I saw him clearly, I froze. He probed out, saw me clearly, slightly surprised, said, Xiao Xi!

My eyes were wet all of a sudden, my voice was all a little murmured up, and I shouted at him, saying, Grandpa ……

Open the door this person, is my grandfather who died many years ago, I had seen his face in the tree of the human face, but I did not think that I would see him, a moment in my heart and surprised and happy, the taste is difficult to understand.

My grandfather from the previous kind of unexpected appearance back to God, also is full of emotion, he probed towards the street outside the house looked, suddenly reached out and pulled me a hand, a drag me into the house, the house door "bang" sound closed up.

I went into the house, found that the yard is full of water, the tree has not been like a human face, the house has been burned into ruins, it seems that the previous fire is very big, with a lot of water, only to extinguish the fire.

But compared to these, what made me even more strange was that the house was stained with people, no, it should be ghosts.

One by one, they stood in a corner of the yard, wearing the life clothes they wore when they died, all looking a bit old. There were men and women, all with different ages and looks.

I was puzzled, suddenly heard the voice that spoke in the house earlier, I followed the voice to look, only to find that the person who spoke, is standing in front of the tree, two hands behind the back, a closer look, he even tied a braid, the clothes on the body is also the style of the Qing Dynasty, I do not know how long he has been dead, and is looking at the tree's stumps sighing and sighing.

He did not turn around, I only heard him ask a slightly puzzled, speaking in a vernacular way not vernacular, literary not literary, said, come this little friend, who is it?

I was originally standing behind my grandfather, as soon as I heard him open his mouth, my grandfather turned around and shoved towards me, letting me walk forward.

I didn't know what to do, so I just had to follow my grandfather's request and came to the man's side.

He slightly sideways head to look at me, I only then see his appearance clearly, eyebrows like a sword, nose straight, the outline is really like a knife cutting general clear, age about thirty or so. If it is not because of this hairstyle is a melon head, may not be placed in modern times, or a handsome man.

He stared at me, suddenly asked a question, said kid, what is the name?

I can't stand this tone of his speech, a face of dissatisfaction muttered a sentence, said my name is Tan Xi.

He gently "Oh" a sound, said Tan Xi …… Xi, light also. I don't know if you can afford this word. Well, I do not care to talk about this with you, you first kowtow.

As soon as I heard this, I was dumbfounded, and my heart said straight that this person died for a long time brain moldy bar, which one let people give him kowtow to the ghosts and monsters. I don't know what's wrong with him.

Who knows I went back to look, my grandfather's face has no expression, just can't stop urging me to quickly kneel down. My heart is even more strange, hard to stand in place did not move, my grandfather came up on my shoulders pressed, scolded, you this child how so unintelligent, not yet kneel down, this is your eight generations of ancestors!