Chapter 562 Allergies
Chapter 562 Allergies
"Name?"
"Zhou Futong."
"Hometown!"
"I am from Niujia Village."
Finally it was Tian Lin's turn in line. Two civil servants were sitting at the table with a notebook in their hands.
They soon found the name of 'Zhou Futong' in the book. One of the civil officials checked the harvest in the field, while another civil official asked Zhou Futong: "How many drought demons have you caught?"
"Five."
"Five, that means only five merit points."
After the civil servant finished speaking, he wrote a "five" after "Zhou Futong" and said without raising his head, "After handing Hanba over to the Criminal Department, go back home. After the mid-month exam, someone from the Merit Department will burn incense for you to make a vow."
Tian Lin didn't know what the incense was, but he knew he couldn't ask too much. After thanking him, he pulled Hanba behind him and walked forward.
The closer you get to Naihe City, the more you can feel its grandeur.
The walls of the entire Naihe City are dozens of feet high and are made entirely of bricks made of human bone powder.
These specially made bricks were engraved with the names and hometowns of the deceased, just like tombstones. Tian Lin also saw the faces of wronged souls sometimes protruding on the tombstones.
Simply put, the people who built this city not only made the monument with human flesh and bones, but also sealed the souls of the victims in the monument, so that their souls have been protecting the city for years and so that their souls can only live and die with the city.
However, this also caused the city to be filled with resentment. If a living person approached this city, the resentment alone would tear the living person apart.
Fortunately, Tian Lin and others were wearing the skins of the Ox-Head and Horse-Faced Demons, so they didn't have to worry about being rejected by these resentful thoughts.
In addition to the city walls, the lanterns hanging high on the city walls are also extremely eye-catching.
The lantern hanging high up was clearly made of a hollowed-out human head with a candle placed inside.
As the candle burned, the two eyes of the human head scanned the people below the city, as if choosing someone to devour.
Tian Lin did not stay under the city wall for long. He quickly squeezed into the city gate and found Senior Brother Qiao and others who were waiting in front.
Then I heard Senior Brother Qiao say, "It's easy to find the Criminal Division, but it might be difficult to find their respective residences."
They are just imposters, but have no memory of their original selves.
"Even if we know where we live, do we dare to go back there?"
Mei Xiangu also came over at this time. She said with a horse-faced mask on her head: "Without the art of disguise, we will be discovered soon."
"Don't worry, Junior Sister Mei. We have been planning to enter the city for several months. Not to mention changing our appearance, even changing our living aura is not a problem."
After saying this, Senior Brother Qiao looked at the Xiangxi Sect disciple standing beside him and said, "Junior Brother Peng, I need your help with the disguise and breath concealment matters."
The Xiangxi Sect's true disciple nodded and said, "We killed the Ox-Headed and Horse-Faced Demons and searched their souls before, wasn't it for today? I have prepared the corpse powder, but we need to find a place where no one will notice us first."
Tian Lin looked around the ghost town and saw that there were people coming and going here, and there were actually quite a few inns on both sides of the road.
He remembered that he still had some paper money for the dead in his pocket, and if paper money for the dead could be used here, then it would not be difficult to book a room to stay in temporarily.
"Let's follow the other bull-headed and horse-faced people to the Criminal Court first, and then think of a way to disguise ourselves."
As long as he takes off the bull's head, he can display his magical powers. Then he can use elixirs to disguise himself so that no one can tell.
Soon, a group of people followed the other Ox-Head and Horse-Faced Demons, and soon they found the government office.
What everyone saw along the way was evil vendors everywhere, and armored ghost soldiers maintaining order.
If a few people had not known that this was a ghost town, who would have suspected that the people in the city were not ordinary living people?
Seeing these people in good order, Mei Xiangu couldn't help but exclaimed: "If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, who would have thought that there are still so many dead people living here? If the Taoist sect wants to go to another world and must take this road, I'm afraid they will have to fight with the ghost soldiers of the city."
They lined up and entered the yamen, but before they even reached the government office, they saw ghost soldiers at the door of the office taking over the drought demon.
After handing over Hanba, the Ox-Headed and Horse-Faced Monsters turned around and left.
Tian Lin and others followed suit and did not dare to stay here any longer.
Several people left the office and did not dare to take off their disguises until they reached a corner.
Wang Yanyu and Tian Lin first guarded the alley entrance, and then they took turns to change their appearance, until finally it was Tian Lin and Wang Yanyu's turn.
"This is a corpse-transforming pill. If you take it, you will be covered in corpse qi, and outsiders will no longer be able to smell your living breath."
After the Xiangxi sect disciple surnamed Peng finished speaking, he handed a black pill to Tian Lin and Mei Xiangu respectively.
Looking at the black pill, Tian Lin was speechless for a moment.
He thought that the so-called transformation into a dead person meant using something like a shroud, but he didn't expect it meant swallowing pills.
Sure enough, after Wang Yanyu swallowed the pill, his face turned paler instantly and there was a sense of death around him.
"Junior Brother Tian, are you afraid that I will poison you?"
Seeing that Tian Lin refused to take the pill, disciple Peng couldn't help but frown and asked.
Tian Lin thought for a moment and lied, "I've heard of this pill before, but I'm allergic to it, so I'm afraid I can't take it."
"allergy?"
The disciple named Peng had never heard of this word, so he didn't quite believe Tian Lin's nonsense.
"Junior brother, think clearly. If you don't take this pill, you will end up killing yourself."
Tian Lin was speechless for a moment, he knew that the disciple named Peng still doubted him.
After thinking for a while, he took the pill from disciple Peng and put it into his mouth.
[Beast Language Pill, a special pill made by the Beast Taming Palace, has a chance of understanding the language of beasts]
After taking the elixir, Tian Lin did not feel any changes in his body. However, he had an uncomfortable look on his face, as if he had been poisoned.
Over there, Wang Yanyu and Mei Xiangu's faces changed, they drew their swords and looked at the disciple named Peng.
The disciple named Peng's face also changed slightly, and he retreated with his fellow disciples.
Seeing that the two sides were about to fight, Tian Lin quickly stopped Wang Yanyu and Mei Xiangu and said:
"The so-called allergy means that other people are fine after eating it, but I will be hurt after eating it. This is probably because I have practiced some kind of magical power, which caused this reaction."
This was the first time that disciple Peng heard this statement, and even Wang Yanyu and Mei Xiangu felt it opened their eyes.
Since Tian Lin had guaranteed that the disciple surnamed Peng had not poisoned them, Mei Xiangu and Wang Yanyu put away their swords. Only Mei Xiangu was afraid that something might happen to Tian Lin, so she asked Tian Lin, "What should we do now? What kind of elixir do you need to take to detoxify?"
Tian Lin shook his head and said, "It's okay. I just need to regulate my breathing and use my true qi to force the poison out of my body. But the most urgent thing is not how to detoxify, but whether there is any other way that can allow me to conceal the breath of a living person without taking the corpse-dissolving pill?"
After all, the disciple surnamed Peng was a true disciple of the Xiangxi Sect. He thought for a while and said, "There are many ways to solve this problem. One is to wear funeral clothes, the second is to practice Yin Shi Gong, and the third is to stay in the coffin for a period of time.
I have a shroud, but although it can contain death energy, it can only deceive ordinary dead spirits. As for nurturing death energy in the coffin - this method takes time."
(End of this chapter)