Chapter 50

The 21st pavilion is not far away.

Amei spit out a large mouthful of blood on the way, with more visceral residues.

Lu Yingjiu went to help her.

She showed a pale smile and said, "Every time I tried to leave the village, it was the same result. Before I could go out, I started coughing up blood until I fainted completely."

She coughed a few more times and covered her mouth with her hand, but did not stop the gushing blood.

She wiped it with a tissue, which was instantly stained red.

She said, "Maybe this is my life. I'll never get out of this village. If I'm really dizzy... Can you carry me out if possible?" She laughed again, self-deprecating. "If I turned into a spider, you might just be holding me out."

Lu Yingjiu said, "If I force you out, you may die directly."

"It's okay," Amei said. "It's okay."

So Lu Yingjiu nodded and agreed.

Facing the wind and rain, everyone's face was covered with cold rain, and when their legs were almost trembling, they saw it on the dark mountain top.

It was badly broken, and one of the pillars had completely collapsed, and even the two corners of the pavilion had long since rolled into the corner and sprouted.

Judging from the map, walk from it to the mountain, and only use two to three kilometers to go to the road. It is where the entire VISIT The MOUNTAIN route is closest to the road, and the road to the mountain is relatively smooth and easy to walk. It is their best choice.

Everyone just breathed a sigh of relief when they suddenly heard Aaron exclaiming.

They looked over and saw that Aaron kept jumping up and down as if he had been hit by the wind, and his hands kept slapping on his body.

A few seconds later, a black thing fell from his trouser leg and was just trampled to death by his foot.

When they looked closely, it turned out to be a small spider!

The spider cannot tell what species it is, and it is relatively harmless from the appearance alone.

But on the road of Visit the Mountain, except for big flower mosquitoes and a few birds, they did not see any living creatures, let alone spiders -of course a good sign.

Now the spider is making a comeback, although there is only one, but everyone's hearts are alarm bells.

"You weren't bitten, right?" Lu Yingjiu stepped forward quickly.

Aaron is also in a hurry to pick up his pants.

His trousers were already tight, and they stuck to his skin when they got wet. It took a lot of effort to pull them up. Everyone came over and checked them carefully before confirming that he was not bitten. All breathed a sigh of relief.

"Come down the mountain quickly." Lu Yingjiu said.

He looked towards the mountain road going down, and the light of the flashlight passed, only to see the vast darkness with no end in sight.

As long as you can stick to these two or three kilometers, you will win.

Everyone did not dare to delay for half a second, and took steps one after another.

Before walking down the road for five minutes, someone suddenly said, "Oh, why do I seem to hear a strange sound?"

As soon as he said this, everyone was frightened, and took flashlights to look around, and the grass and trees were all soldiers.

In fact, Lu Yingjiu also noticed the abnormality.

As soon as he left Visit The Mountain's route, the yin began to gather.

The scope of this Yin Qi is very large, covering almost the entire mountain, like a heavy cloud spinning over their heads.

If the Spider Mother had long since merged with Wanming Mountain, what awaited them must be a stormy attack.

Thanks to Zhang Nianyun's notes, let them know the method of "setting fire to the mountain".

Lu Yingjiu looked towards the middle of the team.

Ye Feng was still insisting on moving forward, without saying a word or falling behind.

It's just that his eyes were so distracted, he was completely absent-minded.

Lu Yingjiu knew what Ye Feng was thinking.

He was thinking that the entire village that turned into a spider, and all the missing and dead people in the sanatorium, were the price paid for him alone.

They were still analyzing how deep Ye Deyong's feelings for Zhang Nianyun were, and it was worth his betrayal of the principles of a ghost exorcist and the morality that a person should have to do such a thing.

Ye Feng said at the time that if he was Zhang Nianyun, he would not want to be resurrected at all.

In the end, in a sense, he was a prophecy.

In retrospect, Lu Yingjiu actually discovered the clue very early.

The first is that Ye Feng has a very vague memory of what happened before the age of six.

During the nursing home, they found a photo of VISIT The MOUNTAIN 99 years. Ye Feng was obviously involved, but he was completely impressed.

The second is the ashes in the little crocodile toy.

He was a little suspicious at the time. If it is Zhang Nianyun's ashes, why should they be placed in Ye Feng's toy?

Ye Deyong must know that Ye Feng likes the little crocodile most, and he knows how sad Ye Feng would be if it disappeared.

Even if Ye Deyong is holding the purpose of letting Ye Feng return to the village after many years and discover the truth, he should not hide the toys to store the ashes.

But if that is Ye Feng's ashes...

Ye Deyong wanted Ye Feng to hug his favorite toy at last.

Ye Feng was right.

Ye Deyong has a weird temper, but he really treats him as his own grandson.

The past, separated by nearly twenty years, slowly unfolded in front of them with a stale taste. The old man couldn't say the words to express his deep love, but his emotions were finally conveyed to Ye Feng in this twisted and crazy way.

Like an old wound.

They tested it carefully before, and finally tore off its blood scab at this moment.

Reveals the truth that hurts to the extreme.

For anyone else, I'm afraid I won't be able to deal with the situation calmly.

Ye Feng didn't collapse on the spot, and it was incredible that he could insist on walking with them.

But now the situation is urgent, time does not allow Ye Feng to collapse, nor does Lu Yingjiu comfort him.

Lu Yingjiu walked to the middle of the team, patted Ye Feng on the shoulder, and said, "Get the talisman paper ready. If something happens, just start burning the mountain."

Ye Feng nodded lightly.

A drop of rain rolled down his eyelashes and shattered on the stone steps.

And so on for another five minutes.

After descending a steep slope, Lu Yingjiu turned back suddenly and narrowed his eyes slightly——

The night was too deep, the light of the flashlight and the talisman paper was almost engulfed by the rain, and the visibility was very low. But when the light swayed across the hillside, you could faintly see living things moving in the leaves and long grass.

He asked God at this moment, and his vision became extremely clear in the darkness.

He could see clearly, those living creatures were clearly countless spiders!

After a whole day, they finally caught up. They were surging, rushing towards the crowd, like a terrible tsunami.

Lu Yingjiu shouted, "Ye Feng!"

Ye Feng turned his head and asked God at the same time!

I saw a brilliant brilliance erupted from the rain curtain, and a long snake appeared above the trees out of thin air with raging flames.

It is strong and powerful, more than ten meters long, but it is surprisingly flexible and light, and it swims more than twenty meters among the trees in an instant!

Originally, it was difficult to catch fire even in the mountains on rainy days. But the power of ghosts and gods cannot be underestimated, wherever it passes, fires are burning.

The wave of spiders was stopped in an instant.

Lu Yingjiu saw that countless spiders did not have time to dodge the flames, and their bodies were roasted and curled into a ball, which quickly turned into coke. But more came in.

He patted a stunned person: "Run!"

Only then did everyone react, and they didn't even have time to scream, so they spread their legs and rushed down the mountain!

The mountain road was dark, and Lu Yingjiu threw out more than a dozen talisman papers one after another. The talisman paper was bright, burning into small fireballs, floating in front of everyone to lead the way - it was all thanks to the talisman paper, so they didn't panic.

And the snake roams freely in the mountains.

Due to the threat of the flames, even if the Ye family asked God, they seldom let it rage so freely. This mountain forest has become its best venue, not to mention, it is furious with the spiders.

In the blink of an eye, the fire blazed into the sky.

Lu Yingjiu followed the crowd, only to feel that the shadow was drawn longer and longer by the brilliance behind him, and the gust of wind rushed towards them.

The flames burned through the night, burning a large hole in the sky.

Half of the sky was red, and the rain was dripping, blending with the flames.

After a few seconds, they heard an eerie humming sound.

The sound resonated with the ground, and the mountain was shaking, almost like an earthquake.

Everyone didn't know what the sound was at first, and they could only feel fear.

It was not until the fire spread and the voice became louder that they could hear clearly:

This turned out to be a low growl.

It was like a human voice, and it was like the roar of a beast, mixed with the rustling sound of spiders crawling.

This mountain, or rather the incarnation of the Spider Mother, fell into a rage.

The spiders heard the sound, and the speed was even faster.

They rushed to the flames without fear of life and death. One group died, and the other group quickly rose to the top. The layers of corpses piled higher and higher, and the Yin Qi slammed towards Li Snake.

After a certain moment, Ye Feng groaned.

Lu Yingjiu looked back.

There were two big spiders hanging on Li Snake.

The flames scalded them sizzling, and they died quickly, but before they died, the fangs had pierced Li Snake's body.

The power of the ghosts and gods invited is closely related to the one who invites the gods.

Ye Feng was already in a bad state, even if he tried to suppress his emotions, it must have affected Li Snake.

The situation is not good, and if it goes on like this, there will always be spiders breaking through the line of defense of the wildfire.

Lu Yingjiu looked forward and could already see the road from a distance.

A car had just driven on that road, perhaps because it saw a wildfire, it drove very fast.

And there is a small town in the distance. Please ask the goddess's eyesight, so that he can see the people in the town - they all came out, many people were still wearing pajamas, and they were not talking worriedly about the raging wildfire. Just take out your mobile phone to take pictures, record videos, and people keep calling the police.

Some people have already got into the car and are going to take refuge in the distance.

Anyway, hope is at hand.

Spider Mother's control range is only in this mountain range. As long as you go out, not to mention absolute safety, you will be inseparable.

At this moment, the mountain roared again! !

This time the whole mountain was trembling, and everyone stood unsteady and fell several times at once.

Lu Yingjiu helped them up, and Jingxian also came to help him. He lifted them up lightly and put them back on the ground.

After this roar, the spiders went crazy.

Stacked together, they formed a five- or six-meter-high wave!

This time, they broke through the flame defense line and rushed straight towards the crowd.

Someone let out a desperate whimper, and his legs were weak, almost kneeling on the ground.

Lu Yingjiu turned around.

The surrounding colors are rich, like the texture of oil painting, each stroke is rich in color, deep and powerful, and outlines the panicked expressions, deep shadows and twisted trunks of the people.

The sky-high firelight made his skin even whiter, and the flames fell into those brown pupils.

He took a deep breath.

Then go against the crowd to the sea of ​​fire and the spider group.

The scene in front of him is like a picture of hell, enough to make anyone flinch. There is no fear in his heart, and in fact, this is not the first time he has faced such a situation alone.

It is always him who takes risks and breaks.

He has lived to this day, not by luck, but by sufficient strength and experience.

Hair Balls whispered, walking around his feet and running around and running crazy.

Lu Yingjiu took out a short knife, and the light of the knife was as bright as the moonlight——

Then he was heavy on his waist and his face was cold.

Lu Yingjiu: ?

Jingxian stayed with him, and while he was concentrating, he even hugged him and kissed him on the cheek.

This act was too respectful and leisurely, Lu Yingjiu was angry and funny, and was about to scold him when he heard the man say in his ear, "This is the admission fee."

"What's the admission fee?" Lu Yingjiu looked at him.

"I don't know what to call it." Jing Xian said with a smile, "Maybe it's Huo Xiu?"

He put his arm around Lu Yingjiu's waist, and snapped his fingers lightly with the other in the face of the spider that was about to pounce.

Those spiders are stagnant.

The rain poured down, fell into the fire, and fell on the spider.

A gust of overcast wind picked up, blowing straight, Lu Yingjiu half-squinted his eyes subconsciously.

Then it was like slow motion, he saw every thin strand of rain in the wind, every leaf swaying on the tree, Li Snake shasha shoveled its scales, and flames shot out from under the scales, burning and biting it. the spider...

In the next second, thousands of rainwater that fell to the ground rose into a sea of ​​flames!

The heat is coming. This heat is much more frightening than Li Snake's, as if a small sun burst in front of him. Lu Yingjiu stretched out his hand to block it, but was pushed directly into his arms by Jingxian—by the way, he also brought the hair ball up together very intimately.

For a time, Lu Yingjiu was buried in his arms, only the explosion of flames could be heard in his ears, the red radiance reaching the sky.

Jingxian actually set the rain on fire.

he thinks.

No wonder what he said about the flame show... He believed it directly if it was a volcanic eruption. Every drop of rain falls, and the flame rises a little higher, just as hell really comes, and the karmic fire burns forever, full of strange beauty.

The spider disappeared in an instant.

Not even ashes were left.

Li Snake was hissing and hissing in the fire, and Lu Yingjiu just saw the dazed expression on its expressionless snake face.

There are more spiders coming from farther away.

But anyway, time is enough for them to reach the road safely.

Lu Yingjiu hugged Hair Balls with one hand and took his leisure with one hand, dragging his family to the road over the road.

Sure enough, red clothes have taken the lead on the road, followed by Aaron, Ye FENG, Little Li and AMEI ...

When Lu Yingjiu rushed over to set foot on the road, the solid touch under his feet was extraordinarily reassuring.

He turned his head, and one or two spiders managed to break through the flames by chance, and delusionally wanted to follow, but when they approached the road, they stopped again.

They dare not go out of Wanming Mountain.

They are finally safe.

The rain gradually subsided, and everyone sat and lay on the road with blank faces.

Not long after, the whistle of the team came, and the headlights pierced the darkness brightly.

Then only one person suddenly laughed: "We, we escaped!!"

He raised his head and laughed loudly, the laughter echoed in the empty mountains until it was engulfed by the sea of ​​fire.

...

Five days later.

Yueshan Airport.

Lu Yingjiu sat at the table and ate the love bento that Jingxian gave him.

The bento is as rich as ever, the tonkatsu is extra crispy, and with the fragrant curry, anyone can eat three bowls of rice at once.

While he was eating, he looked at the messages on his mobile phone.

That was the message from Amei.

Since the day she escaped from Wanmingshan, she has been placed in a hospital cooperating with the family for treatment.

After the spider mother was scorched by the flames, her strength was greatly reduced. don't know if it was for this reason that she escaped safely this time.

AMEI said: "The doctor told me today that the situation is not bad, and you can consider discharge after observation and half a month. After that, the Ye family will help me find a way]

Lu Yingjiu replied to her: [Very good, you have to pay attention to rest]

【okay, thank you. When I'm discharged from the hospital, I will definitely come to you to thank you]

Taking advantage of Lu Yingjiu's reply to the message, Jingxian gave Lu Yingjiu two pieces of pork chops on his meal.

As soon as Lu Yingjiu put down his phone, he saw the two brand new pork chops, and said helplessly, "Why did you add food to me again, I can't finish it."

"You just want to eat more." Jingxian said, "I always feel that you have lost weight recently. You must be too tired to climb the mountain. If you want to go to the mountains in the future, I will pack a private jet for you."

Lu Yingjiu had never been able to tell him, even if he took out the weight record for Jingxian to analyze, Jingxian would probably be able to open his eyes and talk nonsense and run the train with his mouth full.

Lu Yingjiu said perfunctorily, "Okay, okay." Then he returned another piece.

Jingxian was very dissatisfied, saying that you should be careful of malnutrition and hypoglycemia.

Lu Yingjiu thought to himself, I'm about to be overfed by you.

But thanks to Jing Xian, the problem of his irregular meals three times a day has been fundamentally eliminated.

When the meal was almost finished, a staff member in a white uniform came over, bent down and said to him, "Mr. Lu, the plane is almost ready."

"I'll go right there." Lu Yingjiu said.

There were a few more messages on the phone, from another ghost exorcist.

This time, they made such a big fuss at the Yueshan Sanatorium, and even burned the mountain, basically everyone in the ghost exorcism world knows it.

So, his friends sent messages to greet him and inquire about the situation.

Lu Yingjiu replied briefly, and then looked up again, the iron lunch box in front of him was gone.

He looked at Jingxian.

Jingxian was still sitting there, without any bag in his hand with a lunch box.

Lu Yingjiu asked, "Where's the lunch box?"

"I lost it." Jing Xian didn't blink.

"...Lost?" Lu Yingjiu said, "How can it be such a waste, and I didn't see you get up."

Jingxian stopped talking.

Lu Yingjiu felt bad, looked down, and really saw Hair Balls licked the corner of his mouth with satisfaction at the table.

Also burped.

Lu Yingjiu: "..."

He seemed to know where the lunch box went.

Five minutes later, the two of them were standing in front of the helicopter.

The two ghost exorcists accompanying him, as well as the pilot of the helicopter, belonged to the Ye family.

They were going to fly a helicopter and go to Wanming Mountain to check the situation again. This time they invited Lu Yingjiu to join them.

Lu Yingjiu got into the helicopter and put on the huge noise-proof earmuffs.

The rotor turned, and a humming sound came, and then the fuselage trembled slightly and plunged into the blue sky.

All the way, Jing Xian looked out the window.

It was rare for Lu Yingjiu to see him behave like this.

After thinking about it, he realized that Jingxian had never seen the world at such a high altitude.

Lu Yingjiu also looked out the window.

The city passed by underfoot and gradually reached the suburbs.

When we reached the vicinity of Wanming Mountain, there was a burning mess under our feet.

The flame of Li Snake stopped when the Yin Qi completely dissipated. The bare part of the forest is still very large, but it is inevitable.

They flew over the carbon black land and bypassed several mountain peaks. Lu Yingjiu finally saw Yueshan Village and Yueshan Sanatorium again.

The fire did not spread here.

But there was no one in the village. Only a dozen ghost exorcists walked in groups to investigate the situation and confirm that all the spiders were dead.

When the spider mother was burnt out, all the villagers died in the form of spiders. In other words, they weren't really alive at all.

Fortunately, Amei and Ye Feng are all right.

It is a fortune of misfortune.

The helicopter circled a few times over the village. The exterior walls of the sanatorium are still so white that they glow in the sun, and the buildings in the village are still crowded together harmoniously. Lu Yingjiu can still see the mountains and lakes, the grassy slopes, and the farmhouse restaurant where they ate.

However, all of this is based on false pretences.

The rotors turn, pull up the fuselage, and fly to other peaks against the sun.

The mountains in the distance are green, and the sea of ​​trees pulls out new branches.

Young leaves stretched out in the blowing mountain wind.

By the spring of next year, they will guard their souls and secrets under the soil and flourish again.

The next day, Lu Yingjiu and Jingxian returned to Lujiang City.

They actually left for more than a week, but there were too many adventures along the way, and seeing a familiar city again felt like a lifetime away.

Lu Yingjiu was not in a hurry to go home to rest, but went to Ye Feng's house first.

Neither Ye Feng nor Lu Yingjiu mentioned the resurrection to anyone else.

In fact, if the two of them didn't talk about it, no one would ever know about it.

Ye Feng went back to Lujiang one step ahead of them, saying that he wanted to be quiet.

The Ye family could see that he was in a bad state, but they didn't know the real reason, so they only let his cousin live in his house and take care of him first. This made Lu Yingjiu feel a little relieved.

However, he still wants to have a good talk with Ye Feng.

Jing Xian sent him downstairs to Ye Feng's house.

When Lu Yingjiu got off the car, he said, "Don't go up."

Jing Xian nodded.

hair balls: "Oh! Oh!"

Just as Lu Yingjiu was about to close the door, he turned around and said, "Don't feed it indiscriminately."

Jingxian: "Mmmmmmm."

Lu Yingjiu was deeply suspicious.

He entered the community and went up to ring the doorbell.

After a while, there were slightly sluggish footsteps, and Ye Feng opened the door for him.

I haven't seen him for a few days, Ye Feng is quite haggard, his hair is messy, and there are thick dark circles under his eyes. At first glance, he has not slept well at all.

Lu Yingjiu entered the room and sat on the sofa.

Ye Feng sat opposite him, rubbed his cheeks with both hands, and let out a long sigh.

He said, "My cousin is out on errands."

"Yeah." Lu Yingjiu nodded.

The house fell silent for a while.

After waiting for a while, Ye Feng said slowly: "I start dreaming when I fall asleep these days."

He smiled bitterly and continued: "Every time I dream, I dream of rainstorms and mudslides. I think I should be slowly remembering what happened."

Although the details are still very unclear, the plot of the dream is exceptionally clear.

He dreamed of lightning and thunder, the wind that destroyed trees, and the exclamations of those people.

In the dream, he held the second grandfather tightly with his young hands.

Ye Deyong's hands are rough and powerful.

Until the mudslide roared down from the top of the mountain.

Everything happened so suddenly that no one could react.

No matter how powerful the hands are, they can't resist the huge force of disaster. No matter how powerful ghost exorcists are, they are only ordinary flesh and blood. They are not ghosts and gods. They will get sick and injured and will grow old slowly.

In that instant, their clasped hands parted.

Xiaoye Feng and the other three disappeared into the sand and stones in an instant.

After that, the picture is both true and false.

The torrential rain poured down, and Ye Feng saw Ye Deyong kneeling in front of the huge gravel at the foot of the mountain, with blood all over his hands and feet, hugging him and crying.

And he closed his eyes and never woke up again.

Ye Feng said: "I was thinking, if the real me has been burned to ashes, what am I now? Is it a human or a ghost, or is it neither?"

No one could answer his question.

Even Lu Yingjiu didn't know what kind of existence Ye Feng, who was brought back by the Spider Mother, was in front of him.

He can be very human, and he can pretend to be flawless.

But maybe there is something deep under this skin that is still different.

Ye Feng smiled bitterly: "I just thought that it was a joke that I had been a ghost exorcist for so many years. I was created by ghosts, and I am a monster."

Lu Yingjiu was silent.

Ye Feng added: "I haven't told anyone in the family... I know the rules of the family. If I say it, they will definitely not allow me to stay in the family, and it is impossible to continue to be a ghost exorcist. They may It will also treat me as a ghost that replaced the real 'Ye Feng'."

At that time, what is waiting for him will not be known.

Simply removing the name from the family tree may be the best result.

Lu Yingjiu asked, "Then are you going to speak out?"

"I... I didn't think about it." Ye Feng squeezed his fingers lightly, "I'm not ready to face everything." He smiled lightly, "If you report me now, tell me The truth, I will thank you. After all, I dare not do it."

"No," Lu Yingjiu shook his head, "I wouldn't do that."

Ye Feng looked at him: "This is the right choice, you don't know what I am."

"I really don't know," Lu Yingjiu said, "but I don't care."

He continued: "I knew you when I was 16 years old. No matter what you are, I knew you from the beginning." He admitted frankly, "If you really think, you and the dead 'Ye Feng' are not the same. Alone, I can't veto it, but I don't care at all. Dead people are dead people, and it is you who have known me for many years now."

"If the real 'Ye Feng' stood in front of me at the same time as you, I'm afraid I would also lean towards you."

"And it's not your fault."

"You are the beneficiary, but the decision is not in your hands, and you are not responsible for the casualties."

Ye Feng was stunned for a while.

Then he showed an extremely complicated smile: "Lu Yingjiu, Lu Yingjiu, I didn't expect you to be so unsteady. If you tell this, your reputation will be ruined."

Lu Yingjiu shrugged: "There is no such thing as a famous name, the rule is that the dead are alive, as long as I have a good conscience."

He took a sip of water, looked at Ye Feng and said, "If we don't talk about this, no one will know."

"I won't take the initiative to speak out, then the choice is in your hands."

"Otherwise, be open and honest, tell the truth, and bear all possible consequences, but at least you have a clear conscience; or else hide the truth and forget about this matter and live a good life, this should be what Ye Deyong wants to see the most after giving so much. ."

"So, Ye Feng, are you going to tell the Ye family?"