Holy Bone

Chapter 389 Clues of Guchi Country

crackling.

The bonfire was burning, and the faces of the bearded and premature Keremu were reflected red.

The vigil was very boring, and they flicked the bonfire with dry wood from time to time to pass the time.

There is no miasma in the woods, no fog interference, the night sky in the plateau desert should be vast and magnificent, but tonight's cumulus clouds are very thick, making the night sky dizzy, and the magnificent galaxy in the past cannot be seen.

Uncle Keremu, who was fiddling with the bonfire in boredom, heard the sound of tent curtains being lifted behind him and the sound of footsteps approaching. He turned around and saw Jin An approaching, took the flagon from the bonfire and poured a cup of steaming kumiss Pass it to Jin An: "It's cold, drink kumiss to warm up your body."

Although Jin'an was not cold, he still took the kumiss and thanked him.

When the kumiss was eaten, a mass of heat suddenly rose in the stomach and spread to the internal organs and limbs. Jin An showed surprise: "The strength of this wine is so strong."

The bearded man and Keremu laughed and said with admiration, "I never thought that Taoist Master Jin'an looked weak and fair, like your scholars from Kangding, but he was so good at drinking."

"Have you ever heard of marching wine, Daoist Jin'an? Kangding has marching wine from Kangding, and our country in the desert also has our own marching wine. Kangding is rich in materials, and marching wine is made from various fine herbs. People are full of energy and anger, and they march tens of miles at night without any shortage of people and horses. Although the desert is barren, the marching wine of our desert people is also not weak. This kumiss is the marching wine recipe found in the ruins of an ancient country. , after being improved, it becomes a more popular kumiss, which can resist the cold in the desert night and refresh the mind all night, which is not comparable to ordinary kumiss, and Daoist Jin'an is lucky tonight."

Jin An had the cheek to ask for another glass of kumiss. This time he drank the kumiss slowly. The richness of the koumiss and the mellow aroma of the wheat wine brought an exotic taste, which was very novel.

"Kremu, I heard that drinking alcohol can cause hair loss. You don't need to drink alcohol. Why don't you let us share the root cause of your hair loss?" the bearded man joked.

Uncle Keremu, who was prematurely aging and bald at the age of 40, smiled and cursed at the bearded man: "Don't think I don't know the bearded man, you are just trying to get my kumiss. My hair loss is a family inheritance. There's nothing wrong with drinking."

"I saw that everyone was on the road for two days in a row. Everyone was exhausted during the journey, so I kindly took out wine to share with everyone. After sharing a few sips for each person, there is not much left in my pot of kumiss."

"We have to travel for several months, and I don't even have enough to drink for myself."

At this time, Jin An held his wine glass and found a place to sit down, roasted his body around the campfire, and tore off a piece of dried barbecue meat from the campfire to chew.

The bearded man laughed and joked with Keremu, then turned to look at Jin An who was sitting next to him: "Master Jin'an, why don't you sleep more, you have to travel all day to get to Yueqiang If you don’t sleep well at night, you won’t have the energy to travel during the day.”

"The land in the desert is barren and the herbs are precious. If you fall ill in the desert, it will kill you. We are not afraid of this. We have long been accustomed to the wind and sun in the desert."

He also munched on the jerky.

"Thinking about something about Hamuti, I can't fall asleep, so I want to go out for a walk to get some air."

Jin An's answer made the night guards silent for a while.

"Daoist Jin'an, I don't think you are afraid of dead bodies at all. You are a Taoist priest. Have you ever met a devil who resurrected the dead before?" Among the other people watching the night, one looked at Jin'an curiously.

"Isn't the devil scary?"

"Just like Hamuti, who can scare people to death..."

Speaking of the devil and Hamuti, everyone thought of the strange way of death of Hamuti they saw a few days ago, and their faces were a little ugly.

Except for Jin'an.

Only he replied with a very calm face: "In our place, we don't call it a devil, we call it a zombie, or a walking corpse, a zombie, a zombie that is dead but not dead."

Jin An briefly mentioned it. He felt that he was going to Yueqiang Kingdom soon, so there was no need to describe the details in detail and add unnecessary panic.

However, people are curious, the more Jin An didn't want to go into details, the more curious the night watchmen were, and he had to pick up a few words that weren't too scary.

After he finished speaking, he also asked about some things in the desert: "Big Beard, Uncle Keremu, do you have many legends about ghosts, gods and devils in the desert?"

Jin An chewed the jerky, and he was also very curious about the things in the desert: "I heard a legend in Xizhou Prefecture that half a year ago, there was a big sandstorm that was rare in a hundred years. A dead city full of devils, and the dead city is full of skinned dead people?"

As soon as Jin An's words fell, the faces of the big bearded men changed drastically.

This matter had already been spread in the desert, otherwise, how could even a village in a remote place in Xizhou Prefecture know about it.

So Big Beard and the others had nothing to hide, and told more details that the old herdsman Sun Tugen didn't know.

First, it is not actually an ancient city, but an ancient country with several earthen towns and an earthen city.

Second, that ancient country is called Black Rain Country.

The bearded man tore the meat and talked about the story of the Black Rain Country: "Actually, the legend of the Black Rain Country is not a secret in the desert. We grew up listening to the stories of the Black Rain Country when we were young. If a child cries at night and is disobedient, Adults use the story of the Lord of the Black Rain Country to scare children and make them behave."

"The Black Rain Country is just like its name. It is a rare oasis in the desert with plenty of rain. It is a land of gods. It is a sacred place opened up by the gods in the desert for animals to live and multiply. It is protected by the desert gods."

"The Black Rain Country relies on the oasis and has a large population and camels, so it is good at fighting. After annexing several small countries, the population is about to exceed [-] or has already exceeded [-]."

"However, no matter which country's rulers in history, they all have one thing in common in their later years, that is, the older they are, the more they are afraid of death, the less they want to leave their glory and wealth, and they want to keep holding on to the power in their hands."

"That year, the Fourth Lord of the Black Rain Country, after reaching an advanced age, began to send warriors to find a way to live forever, and then some strange people defected to the Black Rain Country one after another, and four of them were the most notorious. They were a group of like-minded people. , people who are all looking for longevity techniques, because their methods are too extreme, and they are wanted in their respective countries, so they choose to defect to the Black Rain Country. The leader of the Black Rain Country is too old, he knows that his time is running out, so he knows These people have evil intentions and are willing to accept these sinful people who were abandoned and cursed by the desert gods, and finally brought disaster to the Black Rain Country. The gods sent down a very large and terrifying sandstorm, which buried the main city and oasis of the Black Rain Country in one night. Under the sand, you can never see the sun."

The bearded man chewed the jerky and continued: "Four devils gather around the Lord of the Black Rain Kingdom, a crazy woman who thinks that eating young men and women can delay aging."

"An old lunatic who made himself a mummy, thinking that the mummy is an immortal body in the desert, but the mummy is a dead person abandoned by the water god. The old lunatic can't drink water, so he drinks with blood."

"A schizophrenic devil who thinks he is a god and thinks that people can live forever by abandoning their bodies. What they like to do most is to cheat children's souls from their parents, saying that children's souls are the purest and cleanest. Make your soul stronger."

Jin An rubbed his chin.

The three of them were crazier than the other. No wonder they were wanted by their respective countries. Looking at it this way, the crazy woman who likes to eat young men and women is a relatively normal one.

This story of the Black Rain Country is similar to the folk tales of ghosts and ghosts that you let the cat-faced old lady take you away if you are disobedient. The real history is mixed with some personal imaginary ghosts and ghosts, using false and real methods to enhance credibility , It can scare children who don't listen to their parents.

"There are four devils around the lord of the Black Rain Kingdom, so we only talked about three devils, so what about one more devil?" Jin An looked at the bearded man.

The bearded man continued: "The last big devil is the most trusted national teacher of the Lord of the Black Rain Country. The National Teacher is the latest devil to go to the Lord of the Black Rain Country, but he is the fastest to gain the trust of the Lord of the Black Rain Country. Great devil. The national teacher claims to be a person from the most mysterious kingdom of the undead god in the desert. He has won the trust of the leader of the Black Rain Kingdom. Seeing that the Lord of Heiyu Country was getting weaker and weaker, and rarely showed up, the national teacher became the most powerful person in Heiyu Country, and helped the leader of Heiyu Country to refine the elixir of life. If one's entire skin is peeled off, the most sacred soul can be sealed in the skin forever. The more painful the death, the more intense the struggle of the soul, the more complete the soul is stripped from the body, and the life span of that person can be obtained by obtaining the soul , in the death penalty in the Black Rain Country, there is no hanging, burning, or stoning to death, and there is only one death sentence for the death row criminals who have committed crimes."

When it came to this, the expression on the face of the bearded man became ugly, and he couldn't even eat the jerky in his hand: "Regardless of whether the legend of the four devils around the Lord of the Black Rain Country is true or not, fortunately, the Black Rain Country has been destroyed. The desert is forever sealed under the sand, the Black Rain Kingdom has been subjugated for hundreds of years, even if there are really four great devils, they have been dead for hundreds of years, the gods will not let the cursed people leave the land that has been cursed by him."

Jin'an can understand the physiological reaction of the bearded man very well. This is the reaction of a normal person. Who would have thought that the horror stories he had heard since childhood would become true one day? In the century-old Black Rain Country, the Black Rain Country is full of dead people who were flayed alive, just like the scene in a horror story.

What he didn't expect was that he could hear news from the Kingdom of the Undead God here.

Jin An continued to bite the tough jerky in his hands, and pretended to be surprised: "What is the Kingdom of the Immortal God?"

The bearded man curled his lips indifferently and said, "That's just a legend that doesn't exist. There have been legends about it circulating in the desert, and no one has actually found it."

"According to the legend, the kingdom of the undead is full of gold, and even the sand is golden sand. There is also a river of longevity in the kingdom of the undead, which is the source of all water sources in the desert. This legend has been passed down in the desert for thousands of years. Everyone on the Internet knows that this legend is false, only the Central Plains people are still looking for it without giving up."

"I don't think the legends about the kingdom of the undead are not necessarily all false." It was Uncle Keremu who spoke.

"It's like the story of the Black Rain Country. When we were young, we all thought that the four demons around the leader of the Black Rain Country were all fake. The story was used to trick us into making us obedient. How could we know that half a year ago, after a sandstorm, the black and white demons were revealed? There are skinned dead people all over the ancient city of Yuguo, and those skinned people are really related to the master of Heiyuguo."

Uncle Keremu said mysteriously: "When I was young, I was a guide for a group of people from the Central Plains who were very generous. That's why I made a fortune later, and I had my own small caravan."

"I was sleeping in a tent once, and I overheard the voices of those Central Plains people talking in the tent. They mentioned the Holy Mountain of Huahai and the Guchi Kingdom, and said that if they found the Guchi Kingdom that had disappeared for more than 1000 years, they would find the road to the future. As for the road to the Kingdom of Death, as long as you go all the way to the south of the desert, you will find Guchi Kingdom..."

Uncle Keremu had just mentioned the tent, when suddenly, the screams of several people sounded from the tent beside him, and three people who had been sleeping in the tent ran out in disheveled clothes, crying for their father and mother, in the dark night The shrill scream woke up everyone in the caravan.

As soon as Jin An heard the clues about the Guchi Kingdom and the Immortal God Kingdom, he was fascinated by it when the chat was interrupted by the screams from the tent next door. He, the bearded man, and Uncle Keremu all changed their expressions and ran over in a hurry.

"what happened?"

"What happened?"

Several people grabbed the three people who ran out in fear, and asked in a deep voice.

"Dead, dead, dead in the tent!"

"Dead!"

The few people who were caught were frightened and shouted incoherently with pale faces.

Snapped.

The bearded man slapped a slap in the face, and finally brought a person back to his senses. The person shouted in panic, "Yes, there is a dead man buried under the desert where we sleep!"

Jin An followed the bearded man and the others into the tent. The first thing he saw was a dead body dug out under the sand of the tent. The individual was already scared and ran out.

At this time, the rest of the awakened caravan had already gathered around the tent where the dead man was found. When they heard that the dead body was dug out in the sleeping tent, they collectively changed color. In the dark and cold desert night, they were frightened. His legs and feet trembled, and the hairs on his scalp stood up.

The bearded man saw that there were more and more people around, and the voice was noisy. After he shouted to tell everyone to shut up, he grabbed a few people living in the tent and asked what happened, who dug out the dead people under the sand? ?
Sleeping with the dead body at night, the three of them almost collapsed in fright, and asked several times before finally understanding what was going on intermittently.

There were three people living in that tent, and one of them, named Yali Zabuti, always felt uncomfortable in the blankets under his body when he slept at night, as if the blankets were rough and had burrs, and his back felt as uncomfortable as needles. It was a little itchy, like it was pressed against the burrs of the blanket or like a desert scorpion crawled on him. He scratched it a few times, but his body was still itchy.But he didn't find any scorpions or bugs after waking up several times. Instead, the more he slept, the more itchy his back felt like a needle prick, and he couldn't fall asleep at all.

He tossed and tossed so continuously that he woke up the other people in the same tent. Without mentioning it, Alexa asked the others if they felt itching or bugs crawling on their bodies?

Everyone has been running around for a day, and they are already very tired. They say they don't feel anything, and tell Alexa to go to bed quickly without disturbing them, or they won't have the energy to continue their journey tomorrow.

However, Alexa couldn't fall asleep even after enduring it a few times. He felt that there were no scorpions or bugs on the blanket, maybe they were hidden in the sand?

So I dug the sand with my hands.

As a result, this dig really dug something.

He continued to dig down.

Then they dug out a dead man's neck and half a dead man's face, and Alexa Buti and the other two who were woken up by him ran out crying in fright.

"Is this a coincidence? We camped here overnight and buried a dead body under the desert?" After learning about the situation, the uneasiness in the bearded man's heart became stronger. Machete went to dig out the dead body himself.

(End of this chapter)