Mantra

Chapter 46 The Soul in the Vat

The blue-faced man also saw the sea tank that continued to crack, and the blurry shadow inside, and said "no!"Immediately afterwards, he worked harder and harder to chisel the boat.

The man used both hands, bowed to cast spells, or slashed or poked. Although he was facing a big enemy, he did not mess up his tricks, and he was full of everyone's demeanor.

The skill of this great man made Lei A Niu who was in danger calm down a lot.

In a daze, Lei A Niu even felt that this person was sent by the Queen of Heaven to show her spirit. With such strength and skill, why would he not be able to escape? !

With such expectations, Lei A Niu began to admire this man's skills even more, and he also secretly decided that if he could escape from birth, he must worship this hero as his teacher, and then he would also learn such a skill ability.

In the end, under the vigorous swing of the knife by the man, the bottom of the boat was chiseled open with a miraculous "bang".

The water splashed and the wood flew, and the huge water pressure hit the cabin. Coupled with the double impact of the previous fire and charcoal, the wooden hole expanded rapidly like a bank burst.

Seeing the ever-expanding water hole, Lei A Niu's heart sank back to his chest with a thud.

He knew that when the internal and external pressures were slightly balanced, he would be able to escape by relying on his paddling ability. At that time, this warehouse full of mold and filth would completely disappear into the cold bottom of the water along with the shipwreck.

Full of hope for a new life, Lei A Niu immediately greeted the blue-faced man, "Strong man! You go first..."

But the man remained motionless, standing with his hands behind his back in the waist-deep water, with his back to A Niu, facing the gradually cracked sea tank, staring at something motionless.

Looking at the man's appearance, Lei A Niu felt suspicious and overwhelmed with loyalty, so he didn't run for his life.Instead, he also turned his head and looked in the direction of the man, and also looked at the gray-black sea tank slightly shaking in the submerged water.

The rice in the sea tank was already sticky into a ball, but it was still flowing out from the cracks in lumps.At the crack, apart from the sticky black and gray glutinous rice, there is also a pale arm stretching out desperately.

A thin and long "ghost hand" with white flesh and red fingers!
Leia Niu stared at the gradually widening crack and the desperately stretched out fleshy hand, and his mind short-circuited again.

He couldn't imagine why there was a person hiding in the jar of glutinous rice?
Or... that thing is the instigator of all this weirdness?
But under the pressure of time, Lei A Niu didn't care about anything but astonishment. He saw the arm gradually widening the crack in the cylinder, and suddenly realized it!
He knew that the "thing" was about to burst out of the tank.

Facing the strange hand, the blue-faced man was also surprised. He couldn't help but said to himself, "So it's here? No wonder..."

Listening to the man talking to himself, Lei A Niu felt that the man probably knew the owner of the arm.

But no matter who the owner of that arm was, he knew that there was absolutely no good thing hidden in this kind of tank anyway.

Lei A Niu was distracted, and immediately grabbed the "strong man" by the hand and said, "Brother, let's run! It's important to run for your life."

The man stared at the long hands that quickly squeezed out from the crack of the cylinder, and shook his head slightly.

The man then told A Niu: "You go first, if you don't accept this thing, we will fold it here."

"But……"

"Let's go! After you escape, light a fire. If I'm still alive, I'll follow the light of the fire to find you."

"A strong man..."

"go!"

When the blue-faced man said a word, he didn't scribble any more.With a long roar, he dragged the kitchen knife sideways, stepped on the water, jumped up like a dragon, and rushed straight to the sea tank!

The kitchen knife made a sharp sound like howling ghosts and wolves in the air, and chopped off the arm sticking out of the tank in unison.

A stream of turbid blood spurted out, and the contents of the vat immediately made a sharp sound.

The movement was like howling in hell.

With the breaking of the arm, the crack on the mouth of the vat quickly collapsed, and then a bloody thing mixed with glutinous rice falling down like quicksand quickly rushed out of the shackles of the mouth of the vat, and wrestled with the blue-faced man.

Among the figures flying around, a strange smell of corruption mixed with rusticity quickly spread, making Leia Niu, who was watching the battle, feel suffocated.It also made Leia Niu feel the bloody threat and excitement in reality.

The horrifying scene made him know that it is not suitable to stay here for a long time. Although he felt uneasy, he followed the command of the strong man and immediately dived away.Don't dare to turn around to look at the things behind you again.

Although he was worried about that "strong man"'s life, even though he was curious about the monster in that vat, but he knew that now that he couldn't take care of himself, it was better to protect himself wisely...

In this way, Lei A Niu survived the desperate situation, and as soon as he got out of the tank boat, he suddenly went up against the current and swam to the shore with his excellent water quality.

When Lei A Niu came out of the water, he immediately discovered that at this time, there were already a dozen people lying on the embankments on both sides of the canal, and most of them were helmsmen and conscripts from the same fleet as they were dressed.

As if they had made a deal with the blue-faced man, those helmsmen and Zhengfu had already lit a very prosperous bonfire on the river bank.More than a dozen people were lying around the campfire to keep warm.

As soon as the Zhengfu who also escaped from death saw A Niu, they quickly rescued him who was half-body still soaked in the water, and told him everyone's "adventure".

It turns out that these people have experienced the same right and wrong as Lei Niu, the only difference is that they were rescued from the tank boat by the blue-faced man and the "underlings" brought in very early, only because of Lei Niu's The ship was the last one, so the rescue was not timely, so many innocent lives were lost.

During the discussions among the conscripts for the rest of their lives, some local people suddenly told Lei A Niu that the "strong man" who saved their lives was the famous "cook man" in "Zhaojialou" in the south of Shandong Province, known as the leader of Shandong cuisine. "Green Mian Langjun" Zhao Qingshan, Zhao Da is in charge of the spoon.

In the mouths of those local conscripts and "disciples", Zhao Qingshan was said to be miraculous, not to mention being a chivalrous man, benevolent and charitable, and they also said that if they hadn't been blessed by misfortune and bumped into a black awning boat, Zhao Shenchu ​​asked for an explanation , I am afraid that no one will be able to see the "dirty and tricky" in this tank boat.

If that's the case, everyone must die on those moldy rice for no apparent reason.

When he heard this, A Niu, who was in a state of shock, suddenly recalled the safety of his own fleet and that strong man Zhao Qingshan.

He immediately raised his head and looked into the canal.

At this moment in the canal, all five tank boats of his fleet had sunk to the bottom of the water, and except for a few cabinet poles and bubbling blisters, there was no trace of their existence.

In a daze, Lei A Niu looked at the wrecked ship that had completely sunk, and was worried about Zhao Qingshan from the bottom of his heart. Although he knew that Zhao Qingshan was agile and had amazing arms, he was still sincerely worried about whether he could fight in the rice vat. more worried about whether he can escape along the waterway in a limited time.

As time passed by, the sinking direction of the tanker gradually calmed down. Occasionally, there were floating corpses and clothes floating out, but they were all moldy and black, unrecognizable.

After a long time, they still did not find any sign that Zhao Qingshan was alive.

But just when everyone was disheartened and thought that Zhao Qingshan's life was in danger, then Zhao Qingshan miraculously dragged a kitchen knife from the canal and walked out slowly.

Under the moonlight, the kitchen knife in his hand shone as coldly as a weapon.Like a unicorn in armor, it is frightening to see.

Everyone admired him from the bottom of their hearts, he is such a man who draws his sword to help, such a kitchen knife for killing ghosts and dragons.

Lei A Niu looked at the benefactor who came out of the water, and immediately ran over to the life-saving benefactor with Zhao Qingshan's disciples.

Lei A Niu walked in only to realize that Zhao Qingshan was trembling all over at this time and was already extremely weak. The most terrifying thing was that his right arm was obviously bitten by the "ghost" in the rice vat, leaving a deep bone. Not to mention the teeth marks, there are also a few crystal teeth inlaid.

Everyone couldn't bear to look at Zhao Qingshan's tragic situation, but even so, Zhao Qingshan still had a calm expression on his face, as if he couldn't feel the pain that happened to him.

Afterwards, everyone helped Zhao Qingshan to the bonfire, and after a while, his complexion gradually eased.

Just after Zhao Qingshan calmed down a bit, those conscripts who were rescued by him knelt down at him in unison.

Some expressed gratitude, some cried for mourning, and more people sincerely admired the master Zhao.

Admire his bravery, and also admire his fearlessness in the face of danger.

Afterwards, Lei A Niu once specifically asked Zhao Qingshan, what the hell was in that boat?Why can ordinary glutinous rice kill people?What kind of ghost is the hand in the sea tank?

Zhao Qingshan's answer was very simple and quick. He told Lei Ah Niu that what was transported on the tank...was military rations.

"Army rations?" Listening to this answer, Lei Ah Niu asked back in surprise, "But what kind of soldiers would eat this moldy glutinous rice? And the monsters in that vat..."

Facing Lei A Niu's series of questions, Zhao Qingshan immediately made a stop gesture.

Afterwards, he told Leia Niu word by word: "I can only tell you that those military rations... are for Yin soldiers, and five ships of moldy rice are [-] Yin soldiers... the rest, you still have to worry about it." Can't know!"

Lei A Niu was dumbfounded at the time!
He has never heard of the military rations of one hundred thousand Yin soldiers, and he dare not even think about it.

But he knew that the grain and rice for the Yin soldiers in that boat must be more filthy than transporting the dead!

Faintly, Lei A Niu looked at Zhao Qingshan with a serious expression indifferently, knowing that something big was about to happen in this world.

……

When Mr. Lei Renlei talked about this, he drank another glass of wine on his own, and then continued to talk to me: "Later, my father knew about those glutinous rice. But the 'tasty and regretful' things in our Wu Zang Temple are called Yincao Selling food for soldiers."

"Yincao buys military supplies?" I said in amazement, "Is there such a thing here?!"

Lei Ren nodded, and continued to tell me: "And the development of this world is really as my father predicted! The Central Plains War broke out in the north in the second year, and the five armies rebelled against Chiang! Most of China has become a battlefield , there are more than one hundred thousand dead, but that's all for later..."

I was engrossed in listening, seeing Lei Ren hesitating to speak, with a look of disintegration on his face, so I asked him again: "Don't sell the restaurant, old man, did your ancestors worship Mr. Zhao's school? What happened later? What is Piling Doucai?"

"You want to hear?" Lei Ren said to me with his white beard, "It's fine if you want me to talk, but... what do you mean? Do something for me."

At that time, when I heard Lei Ren's words, I couldn't react for a moment.

What does he mean to me?What can I do?

(End of this chapter)