Chapter 38 Returning Home (V)
After the room was assigned, Zong Nian didn't dare to stay in his room alone. After putting down his luggage, he took Guan Eryue to knock on the door of the next room and went to find Zong Chen and Lu Ren. When they knocked on the door and went in, Lu Ren and Zong Chen seemed to have just reached an agreement on something. Zong Nian only heard Lu Ren say "Let's do it this way."
When Zong Chen saw Zong Nian again, he seemed to be reminded of something and said to Zong Nian, "It's just right, take this thing back and hang it on the head of the bed." He took out a small sword as long as his arm from his luggage. It was a precious sword made of Five Emperors' coins. It was a gift Zong Chen received on the day he left school. It was very precious and could destroy evil with one sword. Zong Chen carried it with him almost everywhere he went.
Zong Nian of course recognized the Five Emperors Swords and knew how precious they were, so he quickly declined, saying, "Cousin, I can't use them. Didn't your uncle give you this to save your life? What would you do if you gave it to me?"
Zong Chen comforted him, "It's okay, I have a lot of talismans with me. It's enough for one night. We'll leave tomorrow when we get a car. There won't be any problem." Lu Ren didn't have to worry about his protection, but Zong Nian was only a half-filled gourd. If he really encountered some powerful evil creature, he might not be able to protect himself and Guan Eryue. Therefore, Zong Chen lent the Five Emperors Sword to give Zong Nian and Guan Eryue more protection.
Zong Nian was relieved after hearing Zong Chen's sincere words. In his eyes, his cousin was the most powerful master in the world. Except for the time when he faced Yangguan, he had never failed. With his trust in Zong Chen's ability to exorcise evil spirits, Zong Nian agreed: "Okay, thank you, cousin."
Zong Nian happily took the Five Emperors Sword back to his room, feeling more at ease. He stood barefoot on the bed and respectfully hung the Five Emperors Sword on the wall at the head of the bed. He lowered his head and said seriously to Guan Eryue who was sitting on the bed: "Don't be afraid, I will tilt the Five Emperors Sword more towards you. The copper coins on it were all selected by my uncle one by one, guaranteed to be authentic. You will be safe tonight." Holding the Five Emperors Sword in his hand and looking at Guan Eryue who was looking at him with admiration, Zong Nian rubbed his nose embarrassedly, and secretly felt a sense of confidence in his heart that "I can still protect this little apprentice."
On the other hand , after Zong Nian left, Zong Chen, who stayed in the room, lost his confident look, and there was a slight worry between his brows.
A big reason why Zong Chen agreed to let Lu Ren leave immediately was to see if the villagers here would stop them from leaving. As it turned out, this village would not let them leave so easily.
Although he couldn't contact Qi Yu, Zong Chen wasn't that worried about him. The Qi family could be listed as one of the four great families of Xuanmen together with the Zong family, so it was impossible for them to raise an incompetent descendant. Even if he was trapped, Qi Yu should still have the ability to save his life, and he should find ways to pass on the message and ask for help. But the thoughtful Zong Chen suddenly thought of a question: "If Qi Yu wanted help, why didn't he ask for help from the Qi family, but from me, a member of the Zong family?"
Thinking of this, Zong Chen, who had calmed down, finally realized a possibility: Was it really Qi Yu who called him to this place? If it wasn't Qi Yu, then who was it and for what purpose did he trick him to come here?
He looked at the sunlight gradually disappearing outside the window, and couldn't help feeling uneasy.
Will there really be a car coming tomorrow?
The sunlight disappeared completely soon, and the surroundings became dark. The outline of the treetops in the distance could be vaguely seen in the night. At this time, there were three gentle knocks on the door. It was Lu Lan who came to call them for dinner.
Without much hesitation, the group followed Lu Lan to the main hall they had passed by before. A table of vegetarian dishes had been set up on the square table in the main hall. Perhaps because they had been fried for a long time, the vegetables had turned a little black, making them look less appetizing. There were seven sets of bowls and chopsticks neatly placed on the table. In addition to the Qilin cub who was staying in bed and refusing to get up to eat, there was actually an extra set of bowls and chopsticks that had no owner.
Seeing this, Lu Ren asked his cousin, "Uncle, do you want to eat with us? Then let's wait together."
Lu Lan shook her head: "Dad has already eaten in the room, this seat is reserved for the Buddha." After saying this, she picked up her chopsticks and took the initiative to put the food into the empty bowl, while saying to the empty seat, "Buddha, you eat." From time to time, she showed an expression of listening carefully and occasionally laughed.
This behavior of losing san points made the remaining few people dare not pick up their chopsticks. Lu Lan was still talking to the Buddha as if no one was around. In the interval between her words, she seemed to finally realize that no one else present had picked up their chopsticks. So Lu Lan greeted everyone: "Don't be polite, eat."
Everyone laughed dryly but still raised their chopsticks cooperatively, but in the end no one actually picked up their chopsticks.
Zong Nian was unlucky and was assigned to sit next to the empty seat of the Bodhisattva. After listening to Lu Lan's advice, he smiled awkwardly a few times and followed Lu Lan's example, picking up a piece of food with chopsticks and weakly passing it to the empty bowl, saying, "We are new here. Bodhisattva, please eat more."
However, before his chopsticks could reach the bowl of the Bodhisattva, Lu Lan's face suddenly changed. She slapped Zong Nian's chopsticks away. She was so angry that her face turned red. She almost screamed, "Don't blaspheme the Bodhisattva with your dirty hands!" Zong Nian was so scared that he even forgot to pick up the chopsticks that fell on the ground. The remaining three people, Lu Ren, Zong Chen and Guan Eryue, stood up, ready to prevent Lu Lan from attacking Zong Nian.
But Lu Lan was only frantic for a moment, and soon calmed down. She looked at the shocked, defensive, or frightened , restrained her ferocious expression, lowered her head and said hurriedly: "We are done eating, enjoy your meal." Then she put down her chopsticks, stood up and went back to her room.
No one dared to eat this meal, so they left unhappily. Fortunately, Lu Ren had a large bag of family-size instant noodles in his luggage, so no one went hungry.
Late at night, Qilin Cub still didn't wake up, Lu Ren tossed and turned in bed. Zong Chen leaned against the head of the bed, reading a book he brought with him. Both of them were worried and dared not fall asleep.
In contrast, in Zong Nian's room, both of them had their eyes closed, and they seemed to be sleeping soundly. However, at this moment, a discordant sound broke the quiet night: the window glass on the side suddenly made a "squeaking" noise, as if someone was scratching the glass with sharp nails .
With this sound, Guan Eryue opened his eyes in the darkness. He sat up slowly, and the timidity and cowardice in front of Zong Nian were no longer in his eyes. His eyes were grim and his expression was cold, and his whole body was like a knife with a cold light. Zong Nian, who was standing beside him, seemed to have been disturbed by the sound of nails. He frowned and struggled to wake up.
Upon seeing this, Guan Eryue touched Zong Nian's forehead with his finger, and Zong Nian fell into a deep sleep again.
The mischievous nails outside seemed very dissatisfied that no one had come to check on him, and the scratching sound became louder. Not only was the sound louder, but the frequency increased, and it seemed very anxious. As if in response to the sound, the Five Emperors Sword hanging on the bedside began to tremble violently, which was the uncontrollable killing intent that was about to move.
Guan Eryue turned around and said to the Five Emperors Sword, "It's not time for you to show up yet." The Five Emperors Sword understood and stopped vibrating. Guan Eryue looked towards the window, raised his hand, and the air seemed to freeze for a moment, and then the wind from all directions quickly gathered and slashed out of the window like a wind blade.
The windows and curtains were not damaged at all, but the thing outside made a whimpering sound like a howl, and then the whimpering sound gradually became lighter and farther away. It was obvious that the thing ran away after being injured.
Guan Eryue snorted coldly, teleported to the window, and looked down. There was a pool of blood on the ground, which was extremely smelly. Even if you didn't get close, you could smell the rotten smell. There were a lot of wild grass and flowers growing by the wall near the window, but now the grass and trees stained by the blood have quickly withered. The pungent blood spread all the way up to the mountain, and then disappeared.
"A disgusting and weak evil creature." Guan Eryue thought so, and he even felt that using the wind blade to hurt it would dirty his wind blade. He was about to go back to his room in displeasure, but he heard a sound coming from upstairs.
Lu Lan and her father's rooms are both on the second floor.
Guan Eryue calmly walked through the main room and headed for the stairs. At this time, all the lights were turned off, only the red long-burning lamp in the shrine emitted a red halo, and the whole living room seemed to be shrouded in blood light.
Guan Eryue glanced at the strange Buddhist shrine with a haughty look. The dust-proof curtain had been drawn open, but the Buddha statue that was sitting inside and enjoying the incense was nowhere to be found.
Guan Eryue seemed to have expected something, he just calmly withdrew his gaze, and then walked upstairs at a leisurely pace.
When we got to the second floor, the sound became clearer. It was a woman's panting.
Lu Lan's door was half-open, and the dim light of the table lamp leaked through the narrow crack of the door. Guan Eryue stood by the door and saw a scene that even he, who was well-informed, found disgusting.
The thing that was hanging out with Lu Lan looked like a giant spider. But instead of spider legs, it had eight human hands and feet. And the part that should have been the chest and abdomen was not the spider's head, but a giant clay Buddha head, with its back facing Guan Eryue. It was lying on the ground enjoying Lu Lan's service, while Lu Lan was crawling on top of it with a happy expression.
She is trying to devote herself to please her god.
The dim light from the desk lamp cast their shadows on the wall, leaving behind a terrifying, struggling, and twisted shadow.
Guan Eryue frowned as he watched the scene in front of him. He was about to raise his hand and use the wind blade to end this disgusting sacrifice. However, just as he was about to do it, he saw a protrusion on the Bodhisattva's hair move. Then, a crack appeared in the middle of the protrusion, and the crack opened to both sides, revealing a white jelly-like substance inside, and a black dot in the middle of the white. Slowly, more and more protrusions cracked.
It was then that Guan Eryue realized that those were not jelly and black spots, but eyeballs.
The pupils of his eyes seemed to be whirling around with his joy, moving in a disorderly manner. Then, they suddenly focused on Guan Eryue's position. Guan Eryue saw those eyes staring at him, like a person's smiling eyes, curving in a happy arc.
He discovered Guan Eryue.
