Chapter 524 The Living Dead
Hai Dongqing stared at the shadow on the ground, beads of sweat falling like raindrops on his forehead.
Although he didn't know what was blocking him from the beginning to the end, and he didn't know what Yin Xiu and Liu Banxian were there, you ask me, but Hai Dongqing was still nervous.
Especially when he heard Yin Xiu say that there were six people here, this nervous feeling became something substantial and made him breathless.
I don't know how long it took, but when Hai Dongqing felt that everyone around him had held their breath, and it was so quiet that you could hear a pin drop on the ground, it was above his head.
In other words, on top of his shadow, a shadow emerged, swaying, twisting, and swaying, like a big-headed tadpole swimming in a pool.
Hai Dongqing stretched out his finger and pointed at the shadow. Just as he was about to speak, Yin Xiu's hand covered his mouth.
Everyone stared at the shadow, silent for a moment, until a sound like a silver bell came from above their heads, strange but beautiful.
"I asked you to find them all. It seems that you are not ordinary bad people!" said the voice.
"We are not bad people in the first place."
Recognizing the voice of a child, Yin Xiu grinned, "Where have you ever seen bad people who look like us and are kind-hearted?"
The voice seemed to turn to look at Ma Xiaoyu again, making her frown involuntarily.
"But my grandfather said that the more beautiful a woman is, the more likely she is to lie to others, and the easier it is to become a bad person."
"I don't lie to people, I only beat them." Ma Xiaoyu said in an unhappy tone.
"Hehe, that's interesting, a bad woman who can hit people."
"You know that I must be a bad woman? Can't I be a decent person?" Ma Xiaoyu blinked.
"Well, although my grandfather is never wrong, you certainly don't seem like a bad woman."
The child's voice floated in the tunnel, making people feel like a lively neighbor's child, chirping non-stop. Although it was noisy, it was not that annoying.
Ma Xiaoyu glanced at Yin Xiu, with a smile on her face, and took out a handful of candies from her pocket. She didn't look above her head, but held them in her hands and stretched them forward.
"Want to eat?" she asked the voice.
"Oh, people used to give me candies, wooden horses, and new clothes, but these are bad people who only want to catch me, so I won't be fooled."
Despite what he said, in the air in front of Ma Xiaoyu, a small, phantom-like hand stretched out to take the candy on her palm.
Hai Dongqing felt chills running down his spine. He was much more nervous than when he met the big red snake in the forest.
However, Ma Xiaoyu was very calm. Even her breathing was the same as before. Her palm was stable and dry. She just smiled and let that hand take the candy.
Soon, a piece of candy floated from Ma Xiaoyu's palm, was taken away by the little hand, and disappeared.
Then, another piece disappeared, one after another.
Ma Xiaoyu's expression remained unchanged, and even her hands remained in the same position as before, soft and steady, as if the vision that happened in front of her was just an ordinary thing.
Even Liu Banxian felt his palms sweating. When he wiped it on his clothes, the candy on Ma Xiaoyu's hand was exhausted and was taken away by that little hand.
"Is it delicious?" Ma Xiaoyu asked.
“Delicious, delicious.”
There was a vague voice in the air, as if he was talking with a mouth full of candy.
Ma Xiaoyu was not in a hurry to speak, and only waited until the sound of chewing and swallowing ended before she continued to ask: "Do you want more?"
"Do you still have it?"
"Of course, someone bought me a lot of these things, and I keep them all with me."
Ma Xiaoyu took out another handful.
This time, the owner of the little hand finally showed up.
As everyone had judged, it was a child, about five or six years old, with braids that reached the sky, a red bellyband, and stood only a little higher than his knees.
However, he was not standing on the ground, but floating in the air, staring at Ma Xiaoyu with a pair of black eyes, spinning around.
"Hey, pretty boy, why do you keep looking at her?"
Yin Xiu raised her voice, "If you have any dissatisfaction, you can talk to me."
"What do you and I have to talk about?"
The child held his hands and said he didn't care, but he did turn his eyes to Yin Xiu and looked at Yin Xiu with wide eyes.
"You look a bit like a bad guy now."
"I didn't say I wasn't, did I?"
Yin Xiu smiled, "How can a bad person have the word "bad guy" written on his face? Little baby, your experience is still shallow after all."
"Tsk, how did you talk to the immortal?"
Liu Banxian clicked his tongue at Yin Xiu, then turned to the child and complimented him: "I accidentally stumbled into the precious land. I don't know how to call the immortal?"
"What immortal?"
The child couldn't help but feel a little funny, "My name is Muhai'er, I am not a fairy."
"Look, you call people gods and heroes when you meet them. Now you are flattering, right?"
Yin Xiu glanced sideways at Liu Banxian, then looked at the child named Muhai'er, and said, "Well, this brother Muhai'er, I don't know what the little brother did to make you unhappy, big brother?"
Ren Qi's face was suddenly filled with astonishment.
He originally thought that Yin Xiu would say some harsh words, but he didn't expect that Yin Xiu's knees would be weaker than Liu Banxian's, and he would be even more shameless than him.
But this also shows to some extent that Yin Xiu is not a mortal. If the heroes outside are asked to call the little brats in front of them as big brothers, I am afraid they would rather draw their swords and kill themselves than feel that they cannot afford to lose face.
In this way, Yin Xiu is really a man, capable of stretching and bending, and he is extremely flexible. Even the chief ministers in the palace may not have the ability to follow the crowd and adapt to the wind like him.
Ren Qi even couldn't help but want to give Yin Xiu a thumbs up. People like him were indeed strong men, the pinnacle in a sense.
"There's nothing to be unhappy about."
Obviously very satisfied with Yin Xiu's statement, Mu Hai'er crossed his hands, puffed up his chest and glanced at him, "Isn't it a bit too much for you to enter the tunnel dug by my elder brother without even saying hello?"
"Your elder brother..."
Everyone suddenly realized that the [Earth Dragon] was the eldest brother of the wooden boy in front of them.
Yin Xiu rubbed his hands and said, "We just entered by mistake. We are also desperate and found that there is a hidden cave here, so why don't we come in for a walk?"
"Take a stroll?"
Muhai'er raised his eyebrows and looked at Yin Xiu with a look that was obviously filled with doubts. He didn't believe him at all.
"Some pangolins, moles and the like have gotten in before. They said they entered by mistake. I believe it.
However, you say you are here for a stroll, and you go to great lengths to clear out all the mud that has accumulated here for hundreds of years. You think I am a three-year-old child! ? ”
"Then you are no different from a three-year-old child." Yin Xiu muttered.
"What did you say?" Muhai'er's eyes widened.
"Nothing, nothing." Yin Xiu waved her hand, "I mean we are indeed just borrowing the road. No matter whether it is towards you or your elder brother, there is no harm at all. We are just passing by.
Otherwise, will you let us pass? Just treat us as neighbors who meet by chance, say hello, or pass by each other? ”
"What you said sounds nice."
Muhai'er rolled his eyes and said with a sly smile: "You are not here for me and my eldest brother. Are you here to find the living dead lying in the big palace?"
"The living dead?"
Liu Banxian couldn't help but be a little surprised, "You mean the person lying in the underground palace is not a dead person, but a living person? Then who is he? Is he a certain royal family of the imperial court?"
"You are really here for him."
Muhai'er laughed loudly, laughing and joking.
"Many people have come here for him, but none of them seem to be able to find the entrance to the big palace. They either die in a trap somewhere or leave in despair.
On the contrary, I have never seen anyone able to enter the underground palace you mentioned. ”
As he spoke, he looked at Liu Banxian curiously, "Could it be that you are what those people outside say...well, Confucius?"
"Confucius, Mencius, that's called Tufuzi. We are serious Taoist people, who subjugate demons and eliminate demons, not those gold-touching captains who dig and open graves."
"If you are not that kind of peasant, what are you doing in the ground?" Mu Boy'er became even more curious.
Liu Banxian said anxiously: "Hey, little baby, this is a long story. It can't be explained clearly in just one or two sentences. As long as you know, we are not bad people.
You'd better tell us quickly, who is lying in the underground palace? ”
"How do I know this?"
Muhai'er spread his hands, "After all, I'm just a child."
"But haven't you seen him?"
"I just took a look at it from a distance. My eldest brother took me to play there. That place was very scary. I didn't dare to go there by myself. After all, I'm just a child. Children don't dare to go there by themselves. It's so scary. ”
"Then why do you say he is a living dead? Could it be that that guy has been lying in the underground palace for hundreds of years and is still alive? Is he still alive?" Liu Banxian asked again.
"If he were still alive, I wouldn't call him a living dead. Although he was lying down, he could still breathe. But if you want him to stand up, it's impossible because I went there several times and never saw him. I have stood up without moving a finger.
Living people are living people and dead people are dead. Although I am a child, I can still tell the difference. ”
Yin Xiu was speechless. She only felt Liu Banxian communicating with the wooden boy, and she felt like she was sweating profusely just by looking at them.
Ma Xiaoyu felt the same way, and exchanged comforting glances with Yin Xiu.
Ren Qi didn't react at all, he just opened his mouth wide and let out a silent yawn.
Although it feels inexplicable, judging from Muhai'er's few words, maybe the living dead lying in the underground palace is a zombie?
After all, only zombies are more in line with the state of the living dead before they are lifted up. They are neither dead nor alive.
However, a zombie can be raised in a geomantic treasure land like Changbai Mountain, which makes people think that there may be a big problem here.
It is a big problem that catches people off guard and makes them unable to understand the crux of it even if they think about it, but it is too serious to ignore.
In the past, when this kind of thing happened elsewhere, it didn't matter. We just had to free our hands to solve it sooner or later.
However, if they were in the underground palace now, Yin Xiu and the others would probably face a very difficult situation.
Interrupting the chattering and back-and-forth conversation between Muhai'er and Liu Banxian, Yin Xiu asked: "Can you let us go? We have something urgent."
Mu Hai'er originally wanted to say something, but when he saw Yin Xiu's serious expression, he realized that he couldn't refuse easily.
Although he is a child, children also know that they have to look at the faces of adults, otherwise they will be spanked if they are not careful.
"Although you are not bad people, if I let you go so easily, I would feel sorry for my brother." Muhai'er said tangledly.
"Did your elder brother ask you to watch this passage and not let others break in?"
"It seems not."
Muhai'er said seriously: "My eldest brother has always ignored or cared about these things. He travels around Changbai Mountain. He has friends everywhere, and he has been everywhere."
"Then if you still stop us, wouldn't it look like your elder brother is stingy?"
"It seems so."
Muhai'er seemed to understand what Yin Xiu meant.
"Then I won't stop you?"
"Why are you stopping us? We all have no grievances." Yin Xiu nodded.
"But..." Muhai'er was still struggling.
"There's nothing better to do, Mu Boy, the world is already in crisis."
Yin Xiu's eyes were as bright as fire: "If it were the past, I could still reason with you here and clarify things and reasons, but now is not the time to waste time.
Let us go. If you are dissatisfied in the future, just come to us for an explanation that satisfies you. If I really did something to feel sorry for you or your elder brother, and if you come to me someday in the future, I will kill you at your neck and I will never even frown. ”
After a pause, he added: "Or if you want something in exchange, I'll give it to you."
"Who do you think I am!?"
Muhai'er suddenly put his hands on his hips. He was moved by Yin Xiu's heroic spirit, but suddenly heard Yin Xiu talking like this. Wouldn't it mean that Muhai'er was regarded as one of those villains in novels and entertainment who don't know what is good and who block the road?
Although he is a child, he also understands what is good and what is bad. Those with red faces on the stage are loyal ministers, and those with white faces are traitors.
When he got here, although there was still no evidence, he was 100% convinced that Yin Xiu might really be the good man in the legend, and that he only came to this tunnel for a certain important event that he met.
Muhai'er immediately stepped aside and waved vigorously, as if he was taking back something.
The first person to feel the change was Hai Dongqing. The fork in the road in front of him disappeared, and the passage became its original appearance, a straight one.
"Thank you."
Yin Xiu nodded heavily and led a group of people past Muhai'er.
"Wait a minute."
Muhai'er suddenly stopped Ma Xiaoyu.
"What's wrong?" Ma Xiaoyu smiled.
She didn't seem to regard Mu Hai'er as an enemy or something strange from beginning to end, only treating her as a child.
Muhai'er blushed, pulled off a few strands of hair, and handed it to Ma Xiaoyu, "Here, keep this, it may be useful."
"Okay!"
Ma Xiaoyu didn't even look at what was in her hand. She clenched her fist and shook it at him, indicating that she would put it away.
In this way, Muhai'er finally turned around happily and disappeared in the air.
After bidding farewell to Mu Hai'er, Ma Xiaoyu walked forward for a while and felt her palms were slightly warm. She opened her palms and found that what she held in her hands was not hair, but a few ginseng roots.
(End of chapter)