Holy Bone

Chapter 581 Gabala Bone Beads

In the central open space of the ancient city of Shenyu, there is a large fire pile of cow dung cakes piled high to provide warmth for so many people in the house.

In a closed environment, burning so many cow dung cakes, the taste is not to mention how sour it is.

But for the caravan tea merchants who have been doing business in the snowy area of ​​Tubo all the year round, this kind of "air fragrance" has long been used to. Outside the house is howling wind and snow, and inside the house everyone still drinks and eats meat in large bowls and talks loudly. The atmosphere is very lively.

However, this fire did not bring much warmth, so everyone gathered in twos and threes, wrapped in blankets, and lit a small bonfire.

Thanks to the wide space of Shenyu, so many people can be crowded.

At this time, Mr. Yiyun suddenly asked Zhao Jinchuan: "I see they are talking about the cave for hiding corpses, what is that?"

Hearing this, Jin An and Qi Bo also looked around at the people in Shenyu.

Seemingly avoiding this matter, Zhao Jinchuan deliberately lowered his voice and said: "When we entered the ruins of the ancient city during the day, we wanted to clean up the beasts and check if there was any danger, but we found a corpse cave in the mountain not far from Shenyu. , the corpse cave is dark, and people can smell the stench before they get close, and the corpse cave is full of human bones."

"Do you say this is bad luck?"

"But it's too late to change places. The weather here changes as soon as it changes. We have no choice but to bite the bullet and stay."

Zhao Jinchuan continued to speak in a low voice: "Some people speculate that it is the place where the prisoners are held, others speculate that it is the burial cave, and some even speculate that it is the place where the Venerable Venerable suppresses demons. But no matter what it is, we will try our best to mix it as little as possible." These things, as soon as the day breaks, we will leave this deserted place immediately on the road."

Zhao Jinchuan's personality is very cautious, and this is precisely the way he has been able to do business on the Ancient Tea Horse Road for so long and still be able to settle down.

The wind and snow were still howling outside the door, and the wind and snow slammed on the door hard. In the snowy night, a group of people were telling various legends about the corpse cave, and the more they talked, the more evil they became.

Among these caravan tea merchants, there are not only cautious merchants like Zhao Jinchuan, but also reckless men who put their heads on their belts for a living all the year round. The latter are unscrupulous people who don’t care about the corpse cave next door. When it comes to the various legends about the corpse cave, it's so frothy, it's not exaggerated.

"Don't tell ghost stories at night, because people love to hear them, and so do ghosts." Jin An, who was warming up on the bonfire with his hands raised, suddenly uttered a nonsensical sentence.

"What?" Zhao Jinchuan's hair stood on end, everyone was frightened, and he began to look around suspiciously.

Jin An smiled at Zhao Jinchuan: "It's nothing, go to bed early, and hope to see the snow stop and the weather turn fine when I wake up."

I don't know if he was frightened enough by Jin An's words. Zhao Jinchuan tossed and turned and couldn't fall asleep after lying down. , he was suddenly awakened by the cold wind.

It was as if someone from behind breathed out a cold breath on him, and he woke up with a jolt.

As soon as he opened his eyes, he saw a black figure walking to a corner of Shenyu, where he disappeared.

Zhao Jinchuan was so frightened that he almost screamed out, but his tongue was bitten with his teeth, and his mouth was filled with the smell of blood, and his brain was awakened by the pain.

"you're awake."

The sound of people around him almost scared Zhao Jinchuan into fainting, his tongue was bitten by himself for the second time, and he turned his head to see that the person talking beside him was Jin An in Taoist robes.

"Scared, scared me to death, Daoist Jin'an, I seemed to see someone disappear in a flash..."

Zhao Jinchuan really wanted to ask if it was a ghost just now, but he didn't dare to say it, he hesitated.

Jin An naturally knew what Zhao Jinchuan wanted to ask, and said, "That's a person."

Hearing this, Zhao Jinchuan let out a light breath.

Then he came back to his senses and said in surprise: "The back of that person is so familiar, he looks like Wang Yong..."

Zhao Jinchuan explained that the man named Wang Yong was the brother-in-law of the owner of another tea merchant. That boy was a lazy man who pooped a lot, and even went outside to defecate when it was dark. He didn't know if he was blocked by ice slag. This pull lasted half an hour, and just when the caravan was about to go out to look for him, the boy ran back by himself.Ever since he came back from running, he has been silent and ignored anyone who greeted him.

It is precisely because of this that Zhao Jinchuan has a particularly deep memory of the man named Wang Yong.

Jin An was thoughtful, and then got up and walked towards the place where Wang Yong disappeared. At this time, Zhao Jinchuan followed boldly and curiously.

"Hey! When will there be another authentic one here, I will tell you where the wind is coming from!" Zhao Jinchuan yelled.

Zhao Jinchuan is not good at this point, his character is startled, and soon, the rest of the people in Shenyu are awakened.

Everyone asks what's wrong, what's going on.

Zhao Jinchuan began to explain to people what he saw just now with an exaggerated expression. He who became the focus of everyone at this time, there was no fear on his face, only the excitement of being the focus of everyone, his mouth was like opening a ladle, talking non-stop , During the period, I added fuel and vinegar to my own associations, and it really made everyone stunned.

In order to increase the credibility, Zhao Jinchuan turned to Jin An: "Daoist Jin'an, you come to testify for me, I did not lie..."

As a result, he turned his head and found that Jin An behind him had disappeared. Zhao Jinchuan hurriedly lay down at the entrance of the tunnel. He yelled several times, but the answer was a shrill scream.

"!"

The scream came too suddenly, it was too shrill, like the scream of a dying person, and the other tea merchants in the caravan backed away in fright.

Only Zhao Jinchuan shouted nervously, with anxious eyes: "Young Master Yiyun, Qibo, is Daoist Jin'an in any danger!"

It can be seen that he really cares about this fellow Jin'an.

But as soon as he finished speaking, there was a knock on Shenyu's door in the middle of the night, and everyone was stunned. They felt that their brains were not enough, and they couldn't react. It was Qi Bo who reacted quickly and took the initiative to open the door.

I saw Jin An come in from the outside wrapped in white fur and snow, and then closed the door again.

Mr. Yiyun seemed to have expected that Jin An would return safely, and looked at Jin An calmly: "It's resolved?"

Jin An nodded: "Solved."

With that said, throw a bead.

Snapped.

Mr. Yiyun stretched out his hand to catch it.

It was a smooth bone bead polished from human bones. The surface of the bone bead was engraved with complicated characters. Those characters were very strange and shaped like human eyes.

This is clearly a Gabala.

The native sect of Tubo is the Bon religion. Wine bowls and ritual utensils made of human bones are very popular in Tubo, and there are many collections in the homes of princes and nobles.

When they were in the desert Buddhist country, Jin'an and the others had encountered Gabala artifacts before, so they were no strangers to Gabala artifacts. Mr. Yiyun naturally recognized at a glance that the bone beads engraved with eye characters were actually a Gabala magic weapon.

I just don't know whether this Kabala is a remnant magic weapon of Bon religion or which branch of Tantric Buddhism.

Jin An: "I pried it out of Wang Yong's mouth after I killed him. It should be possessed by this thing, occupying his body."

Hearing that this thing was pried out of a person's mouth, Mr. Yiyun frowned, glared at Jin An angrily, and threw the bone beads into the cow dung cake fire, making a crackling sound of burning.

Cough, Jin An pretended not to see it and said another thing: "This tunnel is inclined and leads to the corpse cave. I guess that the corpse cave should be a place where death row prisoners are executed. The Shenyu here, It is a place for judging prisoners, and those who have been sentenced to death will be thrown down this tunnel."

"Perhaps it is because of the erosion of wind and snow all year round. As the mountain weathered, the corpse cave dug inside the mountain was exposed."

"Or maybe today is the first time someone has entered the corpse cave. People who are not determined are prone to evil winds entering their bodies."

Jin An hadn't finished speaking, when Wang Yong's brother-in-law over there ran over with livid face and anger: "You murderer, disregarding human life, why do you say that Wang Yong is not a human being!"

"Everyone, don't believe what this Taoist said. I think he is the monster! Think about it, how can a normal person travel in such a heavy snowstorm? Have you forgotten the legends about people being used as dead ghosts? , people who died in the glacier of the snow mountain will pull the living to take the place of the dead, trying to find a body to get out of the snow mountain!"

"It is said that Wang Yong is not a human being. Everything is said by the Yaodao himself. None of us have seen it. Everything is based on words. Why should we believe you! Killing people will pay for their lives. Everyone killed Yaodao and the others together. The other two, don't let them escape!"

These caravan tea merchants all knew each other. Compared with Jin'an, an outsider, they were more likely to form a group internally. For a while, everyone surrounded Jin'an with the same hatred.

Seeing that the atmosphere suddenly became tense, Zhao Jinchuan, who was caught in the middle, was in a hurry. He advised everyone to calm down and speak slowly.

Seeing that it was only the first day, Zhao Jinchuan was speaking for outsiders, and the brother-in-law Wang Yong glared at Zhao Jinchuan angrily: "My surname is Zhao, you made it clear that you will have trouble with your brothers today, don't you? I think you are obsessed, you I have also been bewitched by the demon way! I am no longer a human!"

After hearing this, Zhao Jinchuan was so angry that he spat at Xingzi and cursed at Xingzi: "Fart, I am also a person with a temper. My surname is Luo. You can tell my grandpa today. I, Zhao Jinchuan, are not human anymore! I just want to persuade everyone to get angry. Don't be so big, to avoid any misunderstandings in the middle!"

"Daoist Jin'an, why don't you explain it too, lest Luo Laosan is unconvinced." Zhao Jinchuan turned his back, turned his back to Luo Laosan, and blinked at Jin'an, meaning to advise Jin'an not to have anything at this time. Excessive language, so as not to irritate others.

face being slandered.

At this time.

Jin An moved.

He didn't waste his time explaining.

Instead, they directly suppressed all voices with thunder.

No one could see clearly how he snatched the long knife from the hand of the person beside him. The speed of his strike was so fast that no one present could react.

Swish!
I just felt a white light flashing in front of my eyes.

With a flash of the knife, Luo Laosan, who was still arrogant before, had a thin slit on his forehead. The next moment, a bloody arrow shot out, and the man was split in half by the long knife, and exploded left and right.

Crash.

Luo Laosan fell to the ground in his flesh and blood, wriggling many small black worms. When these worms were exposed to the cold wind, they quickly curled up and froze to death.

This scene came too fast.

Say kill, kill.

Everyone is not mentally prepared.

One moment he was a perfectly fine living person, but the next moment he was split vertically in half by a knife in the middle.

On the other hand, Jin An's expression was fierce, and he didn't even blink his eyes.

The people who were making noise just now were all frightened with cold hands and feet.

Puff!Puff!Puff!

It's fine if you don't make a move, and if you make a move, it will be a thunderbolt. Jin An didn't even bat an eye, and killed the three of them in a row with a fierce expression.

The four corpses on the ground all have the same characteristic. There are black corpse insects in their flesh and blood. Once a person dies, these corpse insects will die soon after they emerge from the human body.

This is Jin An's explanation.

Practice is the first truth.

"These black insects like black centipedes are the larvae of corpse weeters. You should be glad that Wang Yong has just been possessed by the evil spirit of Gabala not long ago, and he has not had time to poison more people, and these corpse weeter larvae are still just hatched. It didn't grow. Otherwise, with the severe corpse poison accumulated in these corpses for decades or even hundreds of years, it would not be as simple as just four people dying. By tomorrow, all of you will be eaten up by the corpses. The poison of the dead body enters the brain and turns into a walking dead." Jin An's words, like a thunderstorm in winter, struck everyone's hearts, and the people who had been in a state of fright and distraction since just now seemed to have just returned from their souls, looking at the people on the ground. The dead people and a large number of corpses vomited one by one.

He vomited until the sky was dark.

Pale.

Even after vomiting out the bile, I still felt my stomach was overwhelmed.

For these people, this night was destined to be uneventful, but for the three of Jin'an, it was an episode that they had long been accustomed to along the way.

They crossed the Western Regions, crossed the Snowy Mountains, and entered the ruins of the ancient Zhang Zhung Kingdom. The strange things they encountered along the way were beyond the imagination of these ordinary people.

……

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The weather in the snow-capped mountains is capricious. Last night was still cloudy and snowy, and the next morning was a rare sunny day. The golden sun shone on the distant snow peaks, and a rare small golden light peak appeared.

Although it is only a small golden light roof, not the auspicious Buddha light that shines on the golden mountain, it is a rare spectacle in the snow-capped mountains. This is really what Jin An said.

After a night of calmness, the tea merchants who were initially in shock, after seeing Jin An's abilities, no longer rejected Jin An, but scrambled to go the same way with Jin An.

Jianghu warriors are pretty good at dealing with ordinary people. If you want to meet someone like last night, there will not be enough people to squeeze your teeth.

When Zhao Jinchuan came to Jin'an on behalf of other tea merchants and explained that he wanted to go on the same road, Jin'an agreed without thinking for a long time. These tea merchants have been dealing with Tubo all the year round, and it happened that he also wanted to go to the mountain where the avalanche happened to see. Look, there was a lack of a tour guide who was familiar with the route, so they hurriedly cleaned up, burned the corpses, and after destroying the tunnel, the group continued on the road.

(End of this chapter)