Chapter 239 Yaksha

Mao Shi took out the map and looked at it, pointing to the front and said: "It's about five miles away from the mouth of the Songhua River. Let's run quickly. The news from the Special Service Department is always very accurate."

The mountain road is very difficult to walk, so we tied our shoelaces tightly in advance, but I still asked Mao Shi worriedly: "If the Special Service Department really comes, how to deal with it? No one can withstand real guns and live ammunition."

He said indifferently: "The country usually adopts a routine of loose outside and tight inside for strange people. As long as it is not detrimental to the country, there will generally be no major measures. As for the emergence of the real dragon this time, they just want to prevent the fight between the various factions, and want to control the real dragon in advance, and then gather all the strange people under the eyes of the government for research."

I understand now. If it is really as Mao Shi said, I guess as long as there is no chaos, there will probably be nothing. The second senior brother ran ahead with a map in hand, leading the way. I stared at Changbai Mountain not far away. Thinking of the old man who always advised me to study hard, my heart was hanging. It has been almost a year since I left home to find my grandfather. I was excited and happy to meet him again. No matter who dared to hurt him, I must kill his entire family!

But when I was running, a human skeleton suddenly tripped me and I stumbled.

I quickly stabilized my body and saw more than a dozen mummies lying around in the woods in front of me. Looking closely, the clothes of the dead did not seem to be damaged too much. The eyes and mouths of each dead were open, and they looked hideous.

Mao Shihe and the senior brother conducted a simple examination of the corpses respectively. Not long after, the senior brother said with a serious expression: "It was done by the Yaksha. He first smashed the skull of the dead, and then sucked the plasma separately, so these people turned into mummies."

"The death time was less than 1 hour, and this Yaksha can no longer avoid light." Mao Shi said. Since Huainanzi, zombies have been divided into hairy zombies, flying zombies, night demons, and drought demons. After death, people do not decay, their bodies grow white hair, and they suck the blood of livestock, so they can be called hairy zombies. The zombies killed in Tongliao at that time were already able to leap up, so they were called flying zombies.

Flying zombies have strange speeds and feed on human blood, but they are afraid of sunlight. Once they become night demons, they can walk in the sun like ordinary people, with infinite strength, and their fangs can break steel and iron. As for the legendary Ba, it is a spiritual corpse of heaven and earth that has transcended the three realms. Wherever it goes, the lake dries up, accompanied by natural disasters and droughts. Ba is immortal and is as famous as immortals.

Since the Search for the Gods, there has been no news of the appearance of the drought demon in later generations, but there have been legends of the drought demon in every dynasty when there is a severe drought.

Because the dense forest blocked the light, even the midday sun could not dispel the darkness here. The eldest brother said: "Don't stay too far away from me later. You are not the opponent of Yaksha."

While Gao Hu was looking through the bodies, he picked up a wooden token from their waists with the words "Taishang" written on it. He said puzzledly: "Look at the token, the dead seem to be Taoists."

"Taoist?" I was surprised.

The eldest brother replied: "Yes, 'Taishang' is the token of Quanzhen Sect. Twelve Quanzhen Sect Huoju Taoists were killed. It can be seen that Yaksha is not trivial. You must pay attention to safety."

The Huoju Taoists are real Taoists. They concentrate on practicing Taoism and live in seclusion in the mountains. Their magic may be high or low, but those people are real cultivators, the same as the Tianshi Dao of Longhu Mountain. Now it seems that the matter of the real dragon has also led them out.

The twelve people's clothes are intact, which means that they died without resistance. But Quanzhen Sect is just an ordinary person? Fairy Hu was enlightened by the Quanzhen Taoist priests' lectures and transformed into a human. The Quanzhen Sect in Jin Yong's works was also the first in the Huashan Sword Contest. Twelve people were killed. How strong was that Yaksha?

Just as we continued on our way, a strange thing caught our attention. Because we ran hundreds of meters, we didn't even see a bird around. The quiet forest path seemed cold and full of murderous intent. On a bright sunny day, fog suddenly began to float up from the ground. Fairy Hu suddenly stopped and said, "There is corpse gas."

Fairy Hu's sensitivity as a fox made us extremely trust her judgment, and I also found that this fog was definitely not simple.

The eldest brother took out a talisman, pinched his fingers, and saw the talisman ignite by himself. But when the ashes were scattered with the wind, he suddenly stopped in front of us with a solemn look and said in a deep voice, "Back off!"

Mao Shi reacted the fastest. He pulled Fairy Hu and I back a few steps. The eldest brother, who had made room, drew out the talisman pen in a very casual manner, his long gown fluttering, and holding the talisman pen, he wrote the word "mountain" in the sky.

An inexplicable loud noise followed in the air, and with a "boom", the ground less than ten meters away from our feet suddenly cracked, and a man in ancient official uniform suddenly appeared. His face was green, and his eyes looked at us like a beast, with two fangs protruding from the corners of his mouth. He looked like a human and a beast, and was particularly hideous and terrifying.

"Yaksha!" I couldn't help but exclaimed.

But then there was another muffled sound, and the eldest brother's mountain character talisman once again knocked half of the yaksha's body into the ground. The yaksha's clothes collapsed, and his muscles and bones became twisted, as if he was under an unparalleled weight.

He said to us again: "You continue on your way, leave this to me."

"I'll help you." Mao Shi said hurriedly.

"You go and help Junior Brother. Remember, even if the real dragon falls into the hands of the state, it must never fall into the hands of any private person!" said the eldest brother again.

The eldest brother's words were irresistible and majestic. His long hair fluttered with the steaming air, revealing not only a heroic spirit, but also a Taoist temperament. As for the Yaksha that seemed to be crushed, it was like a beast in a cage. He stretched his neck and made a "wow" sound.

We couldn't help if we stayed here, but just as we were about to make a detour, a sharp laugh came from the fog deep in the dense forest. Then, right in front of us, a chair was suddenly carried and slowly floated out in the fog.

It turned out that the chair was carried by four men of the same height and physique, and a skinny old man sat on the chair. The old man's skin was very dark. At first glance, he looked like a gorilla without hair. What was more striking was that there was a human skull hanging above his armchair. He was holding a 羯鼓 in his arms and playing with a child's leg bones in his two hands. Judging from the size of the leg bones, I think they were drumsticks he used to play musical instruments.

"Be careful." Chief Mao Shi looked solemn. I asked who this little black monkey was. Mao Shi took a breath and replied, "He is the most mysterious wizard Adamu in the witch gate. He seems to be 230 years old this year." The four people with exactly the same height and physique walked in unison. The four people carrying the armchair wore masks on their faces, lowered their heads, and walked towards us slowly.

Mao Shi told me that this Adamu used to be a corpse driver. During the warlords' melee, he was a bandit leader, burning, killing, looting, and occupying the mountains as kings. Later, Yuan Shikai sent people to attack the mountain. What was strange was that apart from the piles of corpses placed in the village, he was the only living person.

Immediately, the leading general reported the matter to Yuan Shikai. The upright National Government immediately worshipped Adamu as a god and sent someone to take him to Beijing, but on the way, he mysteriously disappeared. Then he disappeared for more than ten years. Later, when the Anti-Japanese War broke out, Adamu was just a doctor in a village. He should have lived there for the rest of his life, but the village was bombed by two Japanese shells.

The peaceful years were broken, and the old guy returned to his old business. He led his "men" to harass the Japanese garrisons every night and killed the Japanese garrisons in western Yunnan. When he was recruited by the Kuomintang, people asked him where his troops were. He took them to a mass grave and pointed to it and said that this was his barracks. At that time, two officials regarded him as a mental patient and left western Yunnan without any news.

Later, when the Special Service Department was established, Yuan Beitang went to the village to talk to him. Only then did we know that this old guy had been concentrating on refining a 魃, which is the Yaksha we just saw.

Adamu, who looked like a hairless monkey, was getting closer and closer to us. When he grinned, his teeth looked very white. He was bald and hairless, and his face was full of wrinkles, as if he had just crawled out of a grave.

He said sharply: "Young man, why are you in such a hurry?"

Mao Shi stopped me and whispered: "The ghost lady and ghost man of Li Wu are his descendants, be careful." Then he stepped forward and said: "Senior Wuzu, you ran from the south to the north, these thousands of kilometers, how do you feel about your health?"

"Little Mao is still good at talking." Adam continued in a sarcastic tone: "Seeing that you are so polite, it must be my descendant who offended you first. I think you are right to teach you a lesson, and the lesson is good. You go back, now this road is blocked. I originally set up the fog here to wait for those soldiers, but I didn't expect to wait for you."

From what he said, if he is the one guarding the road, then what is he guarding here?

Cold sweat dripped down my forehead. I almost went forward in anger and asked Adam: "What did you do to my grandfather!"

Adam, who was still smiling, suddenly frowned and looked at me coldly: "Who is this? Why are you so rude?"

I said I was Li Xiaozhang's grandson and asked him again, what happened to my grandfather?

Adam had a gloomy face. He suddenly picked up the leg bone stick in his hand and gently knocked on the 羯鼓 a few times. The crisp drum sound slowly came into my ears, and in an instant, the sound of hundreds of wronged souls roaring at the same time sounded in my mind. Then Adam said to me coldly: "I hate it most when someone interrupts me. Slap me now. Stop when you break it!"

My body was completely out of my control. I actually raised my hand slowly and was about to slap myself.

But I was unwilling to be humiliated by him. Yesterday, I stood quietly in Zhang's shop to understand the truth and found the true meaning of "Tao". But now, Adamu killed people by refining corpses, which violated the principles of heaven and earth and could be called "evil". Since I am righteous and he is evil, how could I bow to him!

Moreover, it is written in the Tao Te Ching that there is a thing that is mixed and formed before the heaven and earth. It is quiet and lonely, independent and unchanged, and it can be the mother of heaven and earth. I don't know its name, so I force it to be called Tao.

The "Tao" is vast and boundless and runs endlessly. It runs endlessly and stretches far away. It stretches far away and returns to the origin. So it is said that Tao is great, heaven is great, earth is great, and man is also great. There are four great things in the universe, and man is one of them. Man follows the earth, the earth follows the sky, and the sky follows the Tao. The Tao is purely natural.

Now, I know the "Tao" and I am the "Tao", so how can I be controlled by evil spirits! The howling of the wronged souls in my ears disappeared. My heart of Taoism was as solid as a rock. Naturally, I had to firmly believe that in this world, good will prevail over evil!

Slowly, I put my hand down again and took a big step forward, shortening the distance between me and Ada. The aura of righteousness burst out from my body. In the haze, I felt as if I was wearing a Taoist robe!