Chapter 104: I come to perform labor service?
Chapter 104: I come to perform labor service?
On the desolate mountain that meets the sky.
Tens of thousands of people, about two or three meters tall, wearing black robes and bamboo hats with colorful strips of cloth hanging from their heads, moved indifferently towards the top of the mountain.
These strange existences are connected one after another.
Like a whole.
Not only do they look alike, they seem like they were carved from the same mold.
Even their walking pace is exactly the same.
And at the end of this team.
But there is an extremely disharmonious existence.
The being was short in stature, and although he wore a bamboo hat, he was actually wearing a Taoist robe. Judging from his figure, he looked like a Taoist boy of twelve or thirteen years old, carrying a sword on his back.
"These things are too weird."
The brass oil lamp hung on Chen Huangpi's waist, and he said fearfully, "Perhaps Yi Qingzhou's body turned into this kind of existence after falling into the underworld, but later escaped to the human world. Now that you have returned wearing its hat, they regard you as one of their own kind."
"But why did they take you up the mountain?"
"It's not that they want to take me up the mountain, it's that they were going to go up the mountain anyway."
Chen Huangpi said with a pale face: "I can only follow them. I feel that if I leave, Luopu Mountain will attack me, and something very bad will happen."
After joining this team.
It really felt like he had returned to the team. Chen Huangpi felt like he and these ghost things had become one.
The mountain road under your feet is no longer difficult to walk on.
But it's a series of steps.
Each of those steps is one meter high.
As for those similar, tall, thin and evil beings, let's just call them evil spirits.
These evil spirits are slender and extremely tall.
A one-meter-high step is nothing to them, they can just lift their feet and step down.
But for Chen Huangpi.
The steps were all waist-high.
He had to use his hands and feet to climb up to keep up with the team.
Although after returning to the team, the scenery of Luopu Mountain has become very different from before.
Just by looking up, you can see the scenery of the top of Luopu Mountain, which is covered with dark clouds. It seems that if you reach the top of the mountain and look up, you can see the sky through the clouds.
Can……
This team is not normal.
Chen Huangpi was just a little slow before.
The evil spirit in front stopped. Even though he was blocked by the bamboo hat, Chen Huangpi could still feel a pair of suspicious eyes looking at him.
Although I didn’t speak…
But Chen Huangpi could see it.
The evil spirit must be thinking, why does this newcomer feel a little strange, is it a mistake?
At that time, Chen Huangpi stood stiffly in place, ready to fight.
But when those tens of thousands of doubtful eyes fell on me.
There was no thought of fighting anymore.
Let’s not talk about whether these evil spirits are just like Yi Qingzhou, transformed from the corpses of immortals.
Just by looking at it, you can force the Fallen Mountain back.
These things are naturally extremely powerful and terrifying.
It is naturally easy to kill Chen Huangpi.
Therefore, Chen Huangpi did not dare to fall behind even if he had to use his hands and feet to climb up.
"Let's take one step at a time."
The brass oil lamp warned: "They recognize you by your hat. As long as you don't take it off, you should be fine."
Chen Huangpi is not disguised as a murderer.
Therefore, these evil spirits will definitely not regard Chenhuangpi as their own kind.
The only possibility is that he only recognizes the hat and not the person.
This is a bit like the government agencies among mortals, which only recognize regulations but not people.
"Maybe after we reach the top of the mountain, they will take me down."
Chen Huangpi gritted his teeth and said, "Once I leave this desolate mountain, I will definitely get rid of them."
Not to mention, there is indeed great terror between life and death.
When he climbed the mountain alone, he put in 100% of his strength.
But none of them were as dedicated as they are now.
It is indeed between life and death that one’s potential can be brought out.
In the Book of Souls.
The ghost of death saw everything.
It sees it and feels anxious.
Although Chen Huangpi is safe and sound on Luopu Mountain.
On the Huangquan tributary, a ferryman came to help.
When he reached Luopu Mountain, he encountered a life-and-death crisis.
A team of evil spirits also came to rescue.
However, the soul-seeking ghost felt something was wrong no matter how he thought about it.
The ferryman knew that the master of the contract was not ordinary. Did these evil spirits know that too?
Chen Huangpi didn’t know whether these evil spirits knew about it or not, he only knew that he was about to die.
I'm almost dying of exhaustion.
He was sweating profusely, and his Taoist robe was almost wet.
My arms feel sore, as if they are about to break.
Both legs were shaking constantly.
He really has reached his limit.
"Chen Huangpi, don't stop, keep climbing..."
"Huang Er, I really can't do it anymore. I can't climb anymore."
Chen Huangpi said in despair: "I have never suffered such hardship since I was a child. No, I am not old. I am only eleven or twelve years old. I am still a child."
"You can't climb anymore?"
The brass lamp watched as the evil team stopped and shouted nervously, "Aren't you going to save the temple master? Didn't you say you were going to climb up Luopo Mountain? We've only climbed for an hour, how come you can't do it anymore?"
"What are your ambitions?"
"These evil spirits will not stop. Even a strong man cannot stand such torture."
Chen Huangpi complained bitterly.
If it weren't for this evil team, he would have kept climbing up at his own pace.
It is definitely possible to climb up.
But now my hands and feet are constantly working, with no time to rest or breathe, it's really torture.
The brass oil lamp is distressed.
It knew that Chen Huangpi had reached his limit.
But if we fall behind even a little, the evil team will attack us, so how can we stop them?
At this moment, Brass Oil Lamp had an idea.
"Chen Huangpi, we are almost at the top of the mountain, keep trying! I see plums on the top of the mountain." "Really?"
Chen Huangpi looked up quickly, but saw only dark clouds and no plums.
"Huang Er, where are the plums? You must be lying to me!"
"You have only been practicing for a short time, so you are not as sharp as me, the Nine Nether God Lamp. I saw a large forest of plums. The plums were as big as eggs, and the branches were weighed down by them. You have eaten plums before, right?"
"Of course I have tried it. It tastes sour and sweet and makes your mouth water."
So saying.
Chen Huangpi suddenly felt his throat was no longer dry and his body seemed to have more energy.
"I want to climb the mountain and eat plums."
A quarter of an hour later.
"Huang Er, I can't do it anymore. I really can't do it anymore."
"We are almost at the top of the mountain. Hold on a little longer. Hey, there are not only plums on the top of the mountain, but also a spring that is icy cold. It is right in the plum forest."
Another quarter of an hour later.
"Huang Er, what else is there on the top of the mountain?"
"There was a woman, a naked woman, bathing in the spring."
"what!"
Chen Huangpi propped himself up on his knees, lowered his head, breathed heavily, and his eyes were filled with murderous intent: "She's too much. Does she want me to drink her bath water? She deserves to be killed, she deserves to be killed!"
Another quarter of an hour later.
"Huang Er, what else is there on the top of the mountain?"
“No, I can’t make it up.”
"No, you have to come up with something new, or I really can't hold on any longer."
And just then.
The soul-seeking ghost suddenly said, "Master, there is no need to make up stories, because we are almost at the top of the mountain."
Hear this.
Chen Huangpi quickly turned sideways and looked up.
Sure enough, the leader of this team of tens of thousands of evil spirits has reached the top of the mountain.
Half of his body was submerged in the cloud, and then disappeared in the blink of an eye.
And then the second one…
The third……
the fourth……
One after another, they reached the top of the mountain.
And Chen Huangpi is at the end of the team.
At this moment, there are less than a hundred steps to the top of the mountain.
Ninety-nine……
Ninety-eight...
Chen Huangpi was muttering numbers in a daze.
Until I said one.
He suddenly perked up. The evil spirit in front of him had already climbed to the top of the mountain in one step, and most of its body was in the clouds.
"Finally up!"
Chen Huangpi took this last step without hesitation and excitedly.
After one step, the sky will be vast and open.
There were no longer steps higher than the waist under my feet, but a flat mountain top.
“The air on this mountain top is just sweet.”
Chen Huangpi is young and his body is not fully grown.
Unlike those evil spirits, half of their bodies are in the clouds and one has to stand on tiptoe to reach them.
But even so, taking a deep breath made him feel a lot better.
"In fact, the air on this mountain is not sweet at all. It is no different from that at the foot of the mountain."
The brass oil lamp shook his head and said, "It's just that you kept wanting to go up the mountain, and you kept talking about the hardship and fatigue of climbing the mountain, so you became confused."
"You're out of your mind!"
Chen Huangpi snorted coldly: "There is a resurrection jade on this mountain, the air must be sweet."
As he spoke, Chen Huangpi followed the evil team while looking around.
"Ah ghost, have you seen the resurrection jade?"
"No, but there must be a resurrection jade on the top of Luopu Mountain. I can already feel it. It seems to be just ahead."
The voice just fell.
The entire evil team suddenly stopped.
Chen Huangpi didn't pay attention and ran directly into the evil spirit in front of him.
The evil spirit stopped instantly.
Then Chen Huangpi saw that the upper half of the evil spirit's body hidden in the dark clouds suddenly leaned towards him.
It was as if the whole body was folded in half.
Inside the colorful strips of cloth, a pair of eyes that were mixed black and white were looking at him with a weird look.
It's not just this evil spirit.
This is true for the entire evil team.
They all turned around and stared at Chen Huangpi with strange eyes.
"run!"
Chen Huangpi only felt his scalp tingling. He was about to ride the black smoke to escape, but before he moved, he felt his shoulder sink. He turned his head again and saw a pale hand tightly grasping his shoulder.
then.
The evil spirit pulled violently.
Chen Huangpi was pulled back instantly.
Then there was a loud crash.
The evil spirit suddenly pulled open his tattered black robe, revealing his three-meter-tall and lanky body.
However, what Chen Huangpi didn't expect was...
That slender body, however, did not have many holes like Yi Qingzhou's corpse. Instead, it looked like it was carved out of stone, giving people the illusion of being cold and rigid at first glance.
Moreover, the evil creature had a mattock hanging around its waist.
The evil spirit grabbed the mattock with both hands, and without making any movement, he just spread his hands apart and held one handle in each hand.
The extra sword was handed directly to Chen Huangpi.
"This is for me..."
Chen Huangpi looked at the bizarre scene in front of him and subconsciously took the mattock. Then he saw that all the evil spirits were holding a mattock in their hands and started digging on the ground.
The evil spirit who was given the mattock gave Chen Huangpi an urging look.
It seemed to remind him that it was time to go to work.
Chen Huangpi dug down with his mattock, complaining in his heart, "Huang Er, you are right, the air on the top of the mountain is indeed not sweet. I just thought that this evil team saved me, but I didn't expect that they saved me to do forced labor and mine."
"What is there to dig on this Ruopo Mountain? Are you here to dig for the Resurrection Jade?"
"Besides saving people, what else can that thing do? You can't use it to create a god."
(End of this chapter)