bayedsolid Chapter 288: The River Evil
Chapter 288: The River Evil
There were faint curses coming from behind me, such as "tuberculosis patient", "sick woman who can't get out of bed", etc.
Hei Yichi hid in a deserted place with a sneer on his lips.
This is how the people in Yijia Village are. They enjoy the help brought by Yi Yuan, but at the same time they envy him.
She flattered Yi Yuan openly, but secretly treated her harshly when Yi Yuan was not at home.
Unfortunately, she had been isolated and silent for more than ten years due to illness, and never resisted or complained.
Yi Yuan's silly brother thought that the people in Yijia Village were so nice.
It was not until Yijia Village was flooded and Hei Yichi and Yi Yuan left that his personality changed drastically after he saw the outside world.
Hei Yichi thought back to the family of three just now and felt that they should be people in the scene, not companions.
However, at night these people seemed to be extremely vigilant and suspicious. To be on the safe side, Hei Yichi decided to wait until dawn to do the rest and now he should observe the situation in the village.
A gust of cold wind mixed with the smell of pig manure blew by, Hei Yichi sneezed, then began to cough, and then he became breathless and dizzy.
she:"……"
This damn body.
Hei Yichi had no choice but to run back holding on to the wall, put on two more clothes and then patrol the village stealthily.
During this time, I didn't dare get too close to the pigpen because there were people patrolling there.
……
Yi was late and went to the nearby river to observe the water surface. It was turbid and turbulent, and the river bank was dry, which showed that the river level had risen a lot recently.
Not only that, Yi Chi, based on instinct, actually felt a kind of evil spirit mixed in the water, and the surrounding vegetation had all withered.
Yi Chi walked upstream, following the evil spirit from the tributary all the way to the vast lake. It was already dawn when he reached it.
This place is ten miles away from Yijia Village, near Mincheng.
The evil spirit around him became increasingly heavy and surging. Yi Chi frowned as he looked at the ominous water that was obviously turning black.
The people in Yijia Village are not talking nonsense, there are indeed river monsters causing trouble here, or river monsters for short.
Yi Chi saw from afar a group of people wearing uniform official uniforms rowing a few boats in the slightly turbulent lake. Occasionally, there were flashes of light, as if they were using special spiritual tools to detect directions or something.
Yi Yuan was at the stronghold on the shore.
These are people from the city hunting team investigating the river monster.
Yi Chi and Hei Yi Chi are both "fake people" with no earthly experience, so Yi Yuan is the subject of this memory, which means he must be a companion now.
Yi Chi touched his rather ordinary face that had been disguised, as well as the coarse cloth clothes that he had picked up from someone's yard, and walked to the distant stronghold with confident steps.
A young man shouted from a distance: "Stop, this is a dangerous place, don't get close! Leave now!"
As he shouted, he wondered, who dared to come near here recently? Aren't they afraid of death?
His shouting startled the others. Yi Yuan looked over and Yi Chi gave him a very familiar smile, which was very much like the prelude to every time he was oppressed.
Yi Chi shouted with joy: "Ah~ Isn't this my little brother Yi Yuan? He has made it big and joined the City Hunting Team~"
Yi Yuan: “…” It was indeed her!
Yi Yuan coughed lightly, explained a few words to the people around him, and walked quickly to Yi Chi, but his expression was not very good. After all, he was reliving the tragedy now.
Yi Chi asked: "How is it? Is there anything unusual that is different from the original memory?"
"Not at the moment." Yi Yuan shook his head, "And from what I've observed, these people are not companions."
According to the rules, companions are usually closely related to the main scene and events, so they will not be people outside Yijia Village or the City Hunting Team.
Yi Chi was not disappointed when he heard this. After hearing about the slander against Yi Chi, a look of disappointment flashed across Yi Yuan's face.
Rather than finding a companion, he would rather have his own sister lying at home.
Yi Chi patted his shoulder comfortingly.
I learned this move from Song Yueqing.
Thinking of her, Yi Chi frowned: "I don't know where Yue Qing fell."
"Isn't it said that people nearby have a high chance of falling into the same scene? Why haven't I seen anyone who looks like a companion after walking around in circles?" Yi Chi sighed dejectedly.
Tonight's memory fragment is almost over, and they have found nothing. If there is no progress on Hei Yichi's side, does it mean that there are only three people in the whole scene?
Yi Yuan frowned and thought for a while, then said, "The river monster will appear in Yijia Village tonight. I was just trying to avoid the city hunting team and explore the source of the water. Maybe there is a variable here."
The City Hunting Team would not allow someone like Yi Yuan, whose main function was a formation master, to venture into the water, because he would be more useful on shore.
But this Yi Yuan is different from that Yi Yuan. Even though he is only at the fifth level of Qi Refining now, he can ensure that he can come and go safely under the water.
"Do you know where the river monster is hiding?" Yi Chi asked with a slight movement of his eyes.
Yi Yuan nodded with sorrow in his eyes, "When the flood happened, I saw the river monster appear."
"In a few moments, the City Hunting Team will be changing shifts. We can take that opportunity to go down and take a look."
Yi Chi agreed considering Yi Yisheng's ability to protect himself.
Everything went according to Yi Yuan's instructions, and the two took advantage of the time of handover to dive into the water.
Although Yi Chi was suppressed and turned into a mortal, she is a congenital spiritual body, and there is no difference between her in water and on land.
Yi Yuan was confused, so Yi Chi used the Hunyuan body Niu Pi to explain it.
Yi Chi followed Yi Yuan to dive somewhere. The water mixed with evil spirits wrapped around her body and felt very cool, especially in the direction Yi Yuan took her. The deeper she went, the darker it became, and the colder the water became.
Yi Chi felt the coolness around her, and suddenly a warm spiritual power came from the palm of her hand, dispelling the coldness from her body.
Yi Chi was slightly startled, he looked down and saw Yi Yuan holding his hand and using his spiritual power to ward off the cold.
Seeing him looking at him, Yi Yuan smiled shyly, seeming a little nervous.
It's quite magical to say, ever since Yi Yuan became Jueya's disciple, due to various encounters, his horizons have broadened, his cultivation has improved, and he has become a senior brother followed and respected by many people.
His words and actions are no longer as stiff and immature as before. Instead, they are elegant, polite, calm and measured, which is very convincing.
As soon as I got to Yi Chi...
According to Song Yueqing's words, Yi Yuan was like a mouse seeing a cat, or a disciple meeting Elder Luo, timid and with a hint of strangeness as if they had just met.
A rather confusing intersection of auras.
Song Yueqing often felt that the two siblings were not yet familiar with her.
Yi Chi felt that this boy seemed to be quite afraid of her. He was usually silent, but unexpectedly he became much better when something happened and was able to cope with the situation on his own.
Very good.
Yi Chi patted his shoulder again in approval, with a kind smile that showed great satisfaction.
Yi Yuan: “…”
After sneaking for a while, we reached the bottom of the lake. The evil spirit was so strong that all the fish and shrimps around were dead, and even river algae and other plants did not grow. The lake was bare with only exposed rocks and mud.
Yi Yuan stopped and sent a message to Yi Chi: "It should be around here."
Yi Chi couldn't speak or make any sound in the water, so he just nodded and looked around.
Soon, his attention was attracted by the pale half-figure vaguely appearing in the distance.
She pointed over there and swam over carefully with Yi Yuan.
Just when they were about ten steps away, they stopped suddenly, because -
When I looked carefully, I saw that it was a human-shaped skull, with dark eye sockets filled with evil spirit.
This is not the problem. The problem is that the skeleton stood up with a crackling sound.
This is not a problem. The problem is that the surrounding mud is stirring, as if something is about to break out of the ground in a small area.
The next moment, a pale skeleton hand stretched out.
Then dozens of human-shaped skeletons crawled out from all directions.
These should be the people who died in this lake and are now infected by the evil spirit and become its puppets.
It is not very strong. The reason why this river monster can run rampant in this area is, on the one hand, because there are no masters here, not even in the foundation-building stage, and on the other hand, it takes advantage of the complex and deep water system to stir up trouble and hide and move.
Yi Chi thought that the river monster behind the scene was at most at the eighth level of Qi Refining.
The skeleton puppets below are a piece of cake.
It’s not a big deal. Yi Chi made a gesture to Yi Yuan: Come on, boy, kill them!
Yi Yuan went there obediently, but the problem was... if he was going to fight, he should just fight, why did he take her with him?
Facing Yi Chi's doubtful gaze, Yi Yuan dragged her hand and swam in the water while writing spells to kill the enemy. He asked unconfidently in a voice transmission: "What's wrong? Was my move not performed well just now?"
Yi Chi frowned and shook his head, struggling to move his hands.
He looked as if he was losing his temper.
Yi Yuan's eyes flashed with a trace of panic and frustration. He pretended to be strong but said in a cowardly tone, "I'm sorry... I'll do it again."
As he said this, he turned his face to the side and continued to write the calligraphy seriously.
You know what, he looks a bit delicate and elegant.
Yi Chi was speechless: "......?"
No one knew what was wrong with Yi Yuan's brain, but he insisted that Yi Chi wanted to test his level, and he stubbornly pulled her along to fight the enemy all the way.
No, doesn't he think it's not working well like this? Or in the water.
Except for the struggle at the beginning, Yi Chi was too lazy to react afterwards, so he just let it go.
After a while, Yi Yuan finished dealing with the skeletons infected by evil spirits, but the evil spirits around them became even colder, and the water seemed to be squeezing their bodies.
It feels like the river monster is angry.
But this just meant that he was nearby. The two looked at each other and cautiously explored the surroundings.
During the search, many spirits or skeletons attacked, but Yi Yuan solved them all easily. However, his spiritual power was about to run out, so he ate all the soul-restoring pills in his storage bag.
Seeing this, Yi Chi thought about going ashore to replenish his spiritual power before coming down. When he was about to signal Yi Yuan, he caught a glimpse of a mud cave with a piece of dark red wood exposed in the corner.
Yi Chi’s gaze froze. Yinhuai tree?
This is a ghost-breeding tree that is not very popular in the mortal world and has a heavy yin energy. How could it appear at the bottom of the river by itself?
Yi Chi frowned and swam a little closer with Yi Yuan, but stopped twenty steps away, fearing that something might happen.
But it was clear enough that the wood was mostly buried in the mud, with only a corner showing. It was a piece of Yinhuai wood carved into the shape of a drum, with curse patterns painted on the surface, bright red.
There is a circle of neatly arranged holes on the side of the drum pier, which are pitch black and are not blocked by mud or sand.
When Yi Chi saw this, his eyes darkened and he suddenly grabbed Yi Yuan's hand and swam upwards.
However, even so, it was still attacked, and millions of fine threads suddenly stretched out from the holes. The material was like long human hair floating in the water, but it was extremely stretchable and tough.
Along with a sinister smile that sounded like a man or a woman, a murderous aura rushed from behind.
This thing is much stronger than a human skeleton. Yi Yuan frowned and adopted the same strategy as Yi Chi, fighting and retreating at the same time.
After several battles, my spiritual power is now exhausted. I either have to lure this thing ashore or get away and recover first.
Fortunately, Yi Chi reacted in time and nothing happened. When Yi Yuan thought of this, he saw that Yi Chi's brows were still furrowed and his expression did not relax.
He was slightly startled, and through her clear eyes, he saw more black threads approaching him from behind.
Yi Yuan: “!!!”
There is not just one Yinhuai wooden drum!
Looking in this direction, there are at least eight!
From this high angle, one can clearly see that the eight drums are distributed in a circle on the riverbed, with the distance between them being just right, not a millimeter off.
Only this one was seen before because the others were buried deep underground. Only now did the clues of the attack on Yi Chi and the other two appear.
Yi Yuan's mind was confused for a moment, and he suddenly remembered what he had seen in Jueya's collection of books.
The ghost drum formation uses locust tree wood as the drum skin, and the corpses of four men and four women as the drum body. It is painted with ghost patterns and contains ghosts in the heart of the formation.
In other words, these eight are the eyes of the formation, and their purpose is to feed the ghosts at the center of the formation.
So what is the core of the formation?
When Yi Yuan thought of this, Yi Chi had already pointed down and saw an obviously raised riverbed mud bed at the center of the eight drums.
Looking from a distance, it looks like a desolate grave.
That is the core of the formation, or the river monster.
It now appears that the so-called floods were entirely man-made.
Yi Chi saw a look of shock and pain on Yi Yuan's face.
Her face tensed, and she exerted force with her hands to move the stunned Yi Yuan away from the spot. When she looked again, the spot had been occupied by countless thin threads. They hit nothing and attacked Yi Chi and the other man again ferociously.
There was a large black mass, like a dragnet, and the surrounding water seemed to be manipulated to become resistance.
Hiss, it’s a little dangerous.
The two men ran at top speed, but they were still not faster than the dense black filaments in the net. Yi Yuan's spiritual power was insufficient, so he had to switch from defense to escape with all his strength.
Yi Chi felt a chill on her ankle, and a bunch of thin threads wrapped around her calves, dragging them down excitedly with great force.
Yi Yuan quickly grabbed her waist and stopped Yi Chi from moving forward.
However, due to this delay, the cold and gloomy threads around them had already caught up with the two of them.
Yi Yuan drew on his spiritual power and used the magic formula to kill another batch, but it was of no use. The thing screamed and regenerated.
The thin line climbed up Yi Chi's legs and she felt a hard object on Yi Yuan's body. Glancing at Yi Yuan who looked a little strange, Yi Chi reached in and pulled it out.
The dagger for self-defense was unsheathed, and Yi Chi cut his palm without changing his expression. Blood spurted out and mixed with the water. Yi Chi drew something with the blood, and the blood spread out with a faint light.
The invincible thin thread was stained with blood, but it suddenly burned in the water, and shrank back suddenly in pain as if frightened.
The encirclement was broken, and Yi Chi dragged Yi Yuan, whose spiritual power was exhausted, and fled.
When Xisifilament chased again, it was already very far away. It seemed that it was limited by distance or some kind of suppression. It did not continue to chase and retreated back into the drum unwillingly.
At the same time, the mud mound at the center of the formation shook, and the soft soil was shaken away, revealing a corner of dark red locust wood.
It's not a drum, it's a piece of coffin lid.
When it appeared, a gloomy and ghostly aura spread out, and the restless center of the formation suddenly became silent.
The coffin lid slowly opened automatically, and a pale and delicate hand stretched out and placed on the side of the coffin.
It seemed as if inky water was flowing on the black nails.
"Ho ho..."
The strange and resentful laughter of the man echoed in the dark and hidden riverbed.