Chapter 145 Qingqiu (V)
Lu Ren has met all kinds of reliable people, and they all have one thing in common: they talk little.
At this moment, Li Boyang, who claimed to be an "old Taoist priest" and was sitting next to him, was chattering to Lu Ren about how reliable he was, and he said as much as he wanted.
The only thing missing from his entire body is the phrase "I'm unreliable" written all over his face.
Li Boyang looked at the copper coin sword that Lu Ren had thrown on the ground with a look of pain on his face. After picking up the copper coin sword, he carefully brushed off the dust on it and said, "Don't throw it away. It cost me a lot of blood and I almost got killed."
When Li Boyang finally wiped the copper coin sword clean, he stuffed it into Lu Ren's hand. Lu Ren subconsciously dodged, causing the copper coin sword to fall directly to the ground.
Seeing this, Li Boyang exclaimed "Ouch!" and shouted, "What a sin, what a sin!" He lowered his head and picked up the copper coin sword that was accidentally knocked off by Lu Ren.
Lu Ren didn't mean it, he said with a guilty look on his face: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I really didn't mean it this time."
But Li Boyang was obviously sad, and he cried loudly while holding his copper coin sword: "Wuwuwuwu, he despises us. We have lived for so long and have never suffered such injustice, wuwuwuwu."
Although he knew that Li Boyang was just pretending, Lu Ren couldn't help but feel his scalp tingling. As long as he didn't have to continue to watch a grown man crying in front of him, Lu Ren was willing to go through fire and water.
Lu Ren took the copper coin sword from Li Boyang's hand and called for help: "Don't cry, don't cry, can't I help you?"
Li Boyang laughed and said, "That's what you said." His face suddenly changed from gloomy to bright, and the speed of his expression changing was amazing.
Lu Ren could only helplessly say: "Yes, as long as you don't cry, everything can be discussed."
Li Boyang said that the Yin energy is strongest at midnight, and if a corpse wants to resurrect, it will usually choose that time. It is still early now, so they can rest for a while, but they can't be too blatant. After all, they have received money from the host. If they cut corners too obviously, they will be complained and affect Li Boyang's reputation for honest business. He still has to pretend to play the erhu to liven up the host.
Although Lu Ren didn't understand why the funeral needed to be entertained, it didn't stop him from following Li Boyang's arrangement. So the two of them reached an agreement and followed Li Boyang's instructions.
But as time passed, the night gradually deepened. The night wind blew through the empty mourning hall, blowing the white curtains everywhere, and the candlelight swayed. The swaying candlelight cast the shadows of Lu Ren and Li Boyang on the ground, distorting them like two slender monsters.
Such a scene still made Lu Ren inevitably feel a little scared.
The coffin placed in the middle of the mourning hall was made of dark brown wood and looked like solidified blood.
I don't know if it was a psychological effect on Lu Ren, but he seemed to hear a very slight scratching sound coming from the coffin. He couldn't help but look at Li Boyang who was sitting next to him, and then he found that Li Boyang seemed to have heard nothing and was not affected at all.
So Lu Ren kept saying to himself: "This should just be an illusion caused by Li Boyang's words." In order to resist this illusion, Lu Ren rang the bell in his hand with greater force.
But the more he tried to convince himself, the more he felt that the voice in the coffin was not going to stop, and the scratching sound became louder and louder. Gradually, the vague sound seemed to solidify and echoed in Lu Ren's ears.
Lu Ren couldn't help it, so he asked Li Boyang: "Didn't you hear any sound?"
Just as he finished speaking, a loud "bang" was heard coming from the coffin, as if someone was knocking on the coffin lid from inside.
At this time, Li Boyang spoke slowly: "I heard it, wasn't the person inside scratching the coffin lid just now?"
Lu Ren, who had just been playing on his own, was shocked when he heard this and said, "Why didn't you react when you heard it?"
Li Boyang waved his hands, which were aching from playing the erhu, and said, "This is just a small scene. He hasn't come out yet. There's no need to make a fuss."
As if responding to Li Boyang's words, the knocking sounds in the coffin became louder and louder. After the last loud bang, the coffin board that was nailed shut by seven soul-suppressing nails was actually blown away by a huge force.
The coffin board hit the ground heavily, and the sound alone indicated that it was quite heavy. The monster that could lift such a heavy coffin board must be very strong.
This sudden change scared Lu Ren. He looked towards the mourning hall in fear. The coffin without the cover was lying quietly in the center of the mourning hall. The monster that was very irritable just now suddenly became unusually quiet, neither attacking Lu Ren and Li Boyang, nor showing up rashly.
Lu Ren instinctively wanted to step back. Just as he was about to get away from the coffin, he heard Li Boyang's voice: "Let's go and take a look."
Without waiting for Lu Ren's response, Li Boyang took the lead. He moved too fast, and Lu Ren had no time to stop him, so he had to follow him and approach the coffin. He couldn't just watch Li Boyang die alone, at least two people would be able to take care of him. In case of any emergency, one more person would mean one more helper.
On the way to the coffin, Li Boyang said to Lu Ren, "We will go separately in a while. You go to the left and I go to the right. I will be responsible for attracting his attention. When his attention is on me, you can sneak attack him from behind."
Lu Ren nodded in understanding, then walked in another direction, keeping some distance from Li Boyang.
The two had already approached the coffin. Perhaps disturbed by the smell of a stranger, the thing inside the coffin began to struggle, and the coffin itself began to vibrate constantly.
The vibration became more and more intense, and then the thing in the coffin suddenly broke open. The broken wood boards were scattered everywhere, and the dust raised made it impossible to open your eyes.
This is what's in the coffin, and it's about to come out.
Lu Ren was choked by the flying dust and started coughing. He opened his eyes in confusion and looked at the thing that came out of the coffin - it turned out to be a giant weasel.
The weasel was about the size of an adult, wearing a simple silk garment. Its claws looked extremely sharp, and each nail looked like a pair of blades. At this moment, the weasel's eyes were an ominous blood red, staring at Lu Ren, and a waterfall of saliva was left in its wide-open mouth.
Lu Ren was panicking: "Why are you looking at me? Look at Li Boyang."
But the weasel did not hear Lu Ren's thoughts. It just let out a strange cry and attacked towards Lu Ren.
Fortunately, there was a huge pillar behind Lu Ren. He dodged without any hesitation and went behind the pillar.
The pillar blocked the weasel's attack route. The blocked weasel angrily stabbed the pillar with its claws, and the sharp claws instantly pierced the pillar. Fortunately, Lu Ren was standing some distance away from the pillar, otherwise he might have been pierced through along with the pillar.
Lu Ren looked at the sharp claws in front of him and wanted to die. It was agreed that Li Boyang would be responsible for luring the enemy .
He couldn't help but yelled to Li Boyang: "Hurry up and stab his Tianling point!"
Li Boyang was holding a yellow talisman in his hand and was slapping it on the weasel's back. He took the opportunity to shout at Lu Ren, "Without the copper coin sword, what can I use to stab him? Throw it over here quickly. "
This is indeed the truth. This weasel that has become a spirit has thick skin and flesh, which is as hard as black iron. It is really difficult to penetrate it without a magic weapon.
The yellow talisman was attached to the back of the weasel, instantly freezing it. Lu Ren took this opportunity to throw the copper coin sword in his hand towards Li Boyang.
However, there was a short distance between the two of them, and Lu Ren's strength was not enough to throw the copper coin sword in a perfect arc, so it fell to the ground halfway through its flight.
In order to throw the copper coin sword, Lu Ren came out from behind the pillar. He thought the weasel was safe enough after being immobilized. But as soon as the copper coin sword landed, the weasel let out a strange cry, and then its body suddenly grew in size, and the yellow talisman on its back ignited a blazing fire.
It turned out that the weasel forcibly broke through Li Boyang's shackles and was determined to attack Lu Ren regardless of the consequences.
Li Boyang muttered, "Strange, why are you so obsessed with Lu Ren?"
The reason why Li Boyang said that he would be the bait was because he had a strong spiritual energy. Dead things tend to live, so in the eyes of the dead weasel, Li Boyang himself was like a huge moon, which would make the weasel unconsciously start chasing.
But now, compared to Li Boyang, the weasel is obviously more interested in Lu Ren, which is very abnormal.
Thinking of this, Li Boyang rummaged through his bag and found two pomelo leaves. He quickly dipped the pomelo leaves in water and rubbed them on his eyelids twice, then saw Lu Ren.
You don't know until you see it. You'll be shocked when you see it. Lu Ren's body is filled with death energy. It's like a solid black fog spreading. If the death energy on an ordinary person is so strong, he would have been dead long ago. But Li Boyang, who just got along with Lu Ren, knows. Lu Ren can run and jump, and is an ordinary living person.
The weasel pounced on Lu Ren again, and Li Boyang quickly threw another talisman. Although this talisman was quickly burned by the weasel, Li Boyang successfully took advantage of the gap when he got the talisman and shouted to Lu Ren: "Are you carrying anything from the underworld?"
Things from the underworld?
Lu Ren was a little confused: "No." But just after he finished speaking, Lu Ren remembered, "No, although there is no on my body, there is some in my body."
This made the knowledgeable Li Boyang wonder for a moment: "I've never heard of anything in the underworld that can enter the body of a living person." After all, everything in the underworld carries the aura of death, and anything with the aura of death will inevitably conflict with a living person.
Suddenly, a bold idea came into Li Boyang's mind. Not everything in Huangquan carries death energy. There is one thing that is condensed from the way of heaven. Although it symbolizes the supreme power of the underworld, it is undoubtedly impossible for such a thing to contain the death energy that can be seen everywhere in the underworld.
Although this guess made Li Boyang himself feel a little absurd, he still swallowed his saliva and asked Lu Ren in a trembling voice: "Is that the Ghost King Seal in your body?"
