Chapter 545: Ghostly Peach Charms
Chapter 545: Ghostly Peach Charms
"No, if you draw a black lottery, you will be caught and made into a mummified corpse. Then how did this guy write these words in this corpse pit?"
Tian Lin glanced at several broken jars in the corner. He not only recognized bowls and urinals among them, but also saw candlesticks and other utensils among them.
These things can't possibly be used for mummies. It's impossible that someone would be so bored as to have a picnic here at a place where corpses are kept, right?
"But if the person who left this message is not dead, then where is his body?"
Tian Lin searched everywhere in the well, but he really didn't find any extra bodies except the one in the coffin, nor did he find any more remaining text.
Tian Lin saw a pair of cryptic peach charms in the corner of the wall, the meaning of which was completely unknown.
Originally, things like ghost-painted peach charms were probably just boring works and perhaps could not be taken seriously.
But Tian Lin only took one look at this ghostly painted peach charm and felt that it was unusual.
It was nothing, Tian Lin had seen this ghostly painted peach charm before. It was exactly what he saw when he was arranging the battle flags at the Nanjiao Town Corpse Well!
Tian Lin slapped his storage bag and took out the ghost-painted peach charms that he had copied from the storage bag.
He spread out the bed sheet with the prints on it and compared it with the ghostly painted peach charms on the corner of the wall.
Sure enough, although the color of the ghost-painted peach charms on the corner of the wall was different from that on the bed sheet, every stroke was exactly the same and it seemed as if they were drawn by the same person.
This discovery really surprised Tian Lin: "So, the ghost-painted peach charms in Jiaonan Town may not be drawn by that person in Jiaonan Town - what is the connection between the ghost-painted peach charms in Jiaonan Town and the ghost-painted peach charms here?"
Tian Lin had felt that the ghost-painted peach charms were not simple at the beginning. Now that he had seen them again under the corpse well in Taiping Village, it was even more impossible for him to think that they were simple.
He put the bed sheet into the storage bag, thought for a while and took out the talisman pen, intending to follow the same pattern and draw the same ghost-painted peach talisman on the wall.
The first stroke was fine at first, but when it came to the fourth and fifth strokes, Tian Lin found that this ghostly peach charm not only drained his internal energy in just two or three strokes, but even when he wanted to draw the fifth or sixth stroke, the strokes were out of shape.
Tian Lin had only encountered this situation when he was just beginning to learn how to make talismans. However, with his current level of cultivation and his own understanding of talismans, it shouldn't be the case that he was unable to write only two or three strokes.
"This ghostly painted peach charm is indeed quite impressive!"
Tian Lin is now not only certain of the extraordinary nature of the ghost-painted peach charms, but also boldly speculates that this ghost-painted peach charms must be the secret of why Nanjiao Town and Taiping Village have become what they are today.
It's a pity that he guessed that this ghostly painted peach charm was a kind of talisman, but he didn't know its meaning and function.
"This ghostly painted peach charm must be important. Perhaps it is related to the solution to the problem. But even if I have the help of Lengxiangye, how can I understand this ghostly painted peach charm in just ten days?"
Although he was very curious about this strange peach-painted charm, Tian Lin finally threw away the charm pen after trying two or three times.
He listened attentively to the noise outside and seemed to hear the faint sound of fighting.
Without much hesitation, Tian Lin used the earth escape technique to sink into the mud and moved towards another house.
But in the blink of an eye, Tian Lin appeared in another corpse well.
He first did as usual, just like he did in the previous corpse well, and used the formation plate to gather the corpse qi quickly and efficiently, and then absorbed all the corpse qi.
Then he looked towards the wellhead of the corpse-raising place, and indeed he saw the door panels placed by Mei Xiangu and others at the wellhead.
There is a door panel to seal the well mouth, so Tian Lin doesn't have to use the door panel in the storage bag to seal the well mouth.
Only at this time did he feel confident and bold enough to look at the coffin in the corpse well.
This corpse well was smaller than the previous one, and could only hold three coffins.
The three coffins were all black. Just by looking at the coffins, Tian Lin guessed that there were only mummies in the coffins. He placed the battle flags in front of the three black coffins as usual in case of an emergency, and then he opened the first black coffin.
As soon as the coffin was opened, the corpse gas in the black coffin instantly gushed out.
Tian Lin only took a look at the mummy in the black coffin, and then opened the second black coffin.
Just as he expected, the two black coffins contained mummies, and their quality was not very high.
Tian Lin clapped his hands and two mummies fell on his back.
He used the sticky technique to firmly control the two mummies. In just a few moments, the two mummies were completely destroyed by him.
"As expected, as long as you are not afraid of corpse qi, carrying a corpse directly can improve your skills faster than eating cold fragrance leaves."
Tian Lin put one hand on the third coffin and, as usual, carried the body in the third black coffin as if it were an ordinary body.
He decisively smashed the three corpses into pieces, and then hurriedly inspected the walls of the corpse well.
It’s a pity that there are no ghost paintings or any last words on the walls of the corpse well.
Tian Lin did not stay any longer, and continued to move towards the next corpse well with the battle flag.
While Tian Lin was shuttling back and forth in the corpse pit, the atmosphere in the old night watchman's guest room was no more tense than when Tian Lin was in the corpse pit.
At this time, the guest room where Mei Xiangu and others were staying was already crumbling, so they nailed some wooden boards inside and outside.
But even so, the broken house is beyond repair.
"If we don't strike the night watch, I'm afraid the battle will directly destroy this house."
Du Qiping couldn't help but plead with Zhou Ting, "Let's beat the night watch and let the daylight scare away those evil spirits. This way, we'll have time to repair the house."
Zhou Ting said, "No hurry. We can start the night watch after the house is completely destroyed. No matter what, we have to give Junior Brother Tian some time to absorb the corpse qi."
The old village chief would force them to perform autopsies during the day, but those corpses were all from drought demons, and it was not easy to deal with them.
He would choose to beat the night watch when the coffin was pulled out of the pond, so the so-called daytime was often the time period when the villagers were pulling the coffin.
He calculated carefully and believed that it would take no more than half an hour for the villagers to pull the coffin out of the pond.
In other words, the so-called daytime does not have six hours, but only half an hour.
What can you do in half an hour? Even if you double the half an hour, it is still not enough for Tian Lin to absorb the corpse qi of several corpses.
Therefore, they had to extend the nights to squeeze out more time for Tian Lin to absorb the corpse qi. They hoped that within ten days, Tian Lin could completely absorb all the corpse qi - that way, the evil spirits in the village would have no mummies to use against them.
"If the house is completely broken, there will be no way to repair it. Then, where can we hide from the evil soldiers?"
Zhou Ting listened to this and looked at the other disciple who asked the question with a burning gaze: "At worst, we can change rooms. Who stipulates that officials like us can only live in the guest rooms? There are always extra rooms in this village. As long as there are door gods, it doesn't matter which room we live in."
He added: "Besides, compared to Junior Brother Tian, what danger can we face hiding in the house? In this desperate situation, we must risk our lives. Otherwise, the more we fear death, the faster we will die."
He said this, but what he didn't tell others was that his clappers and gongs had already cracked in several places. He was afraid that if he struck them a few more times, they would be completely broken into pieces.
(End of this chapter)