Chapter 149 Lotus
Ghost City is not located on a horizontal plane. It is composed of dozens of waterfalls, dozens of river sections, and hundreds of large and small karst caves.
Because of the height difference between the tributaries of the underground river, the entire ghost city is divided into several layers, and some places must take bamboo and wooden stairs or dive to pass.
If you are not familiar with the terrain and have no guide to guide you, it is easy to get lost in the dark river system and never get out.
‘It’s no wonder that the Yu Kingdom’s court and Zhen Fusi couldn’t get rid of the ghost market here. The underground river extends in all directions, and there are countless secret passages. It is difficult for a large army to come in. Even if they do come in, the people in the ghost city can quickly withdraw and transfer to other underground river systems. '
Looking around, Li Ang was a little surprised. The terrain of the whole ghost city was as complicated as a giant ant nest. The population it accommodates may be in the tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands. It looks like an underground kingdom.
A wanted fugitive, a monk who came to buy prohibited items, a foreign spy with evil intentions, a businessman who is greedy for profit.
If Chang’an is a heaven on earth, then the ghost market is where the dirty water and filth of Chang’an City gather.
"This place is still as smelly as ever."
Wu Huo folded his hands behind his head and complained, "What do people in the ghost market eat all day long?"
Yao Jiu walked in front and replied without looking back: "The main food is moss, albino fish without eyes, and earthworms. Few people can afford food."
"Bulk food can't be brought in, so I can only eat this?"
Wu Huo clicked his tongue and said, "It's also because they can eat it."
"When a person is extremely hungry, he will eat anything."
Ya Jiu said lightly, quickened his pace a little, and turned a corner.
"Um?"
Li Ang raised his eyebrows, and what appeared in front of him was no longer the low shack seen in the front section of the river, but a fair and regular villa house located on a high place.
There is a tall courtyard wall outside the mansion, and countless ceramic fragments are buried above the wall to prevent bandits. There are several watchtowers behind the wall, on which are stationed soldiers in strong and sharp clothes.
Above the karst cave where the entire villa is located, there is a huge "herringbone"-shaped canopy hanging above it to block the dripping water from the karst cave.
Under the canopy, there are still long-burning lights hanging, always keeping the lights on. Make the villa estate look spectacular and eerie.
Tap, tap, tap.
Two bald-headed men with the same appearance and wearing short robes stepped out of the shadows on both sides of the house, and glanced at the three of them.
"I'm here to find Kou Zhi'an and Kou Dalang."
Yu Jiu looked as usual, took out a letter from his arms, and handed it to the two bald guards.
The bald guard glanced at him, but still didn't say a word, he just turned around and motioned for Ya Jiu and the others to follow.
Kou Zhian Kou Dalang?
Li Ang's heart moved. This name appeared in the last incident of Shengyefang. At that time, the scholar, the dwarf, and other four people were said to be strangers introduced by Kou Zhi'an to Huai Rui, the doctor of the Ministry of Jin, to help Huai Rui resolve the incident.
At that time, Li Ang thought that Kou Zhian would be an intermediary in the ghost market. Looking at this battle, his status seems to be not low.
Local snake?
Seemingly sensing the doubts in Li Ang's heart, Ya Jiu flicked his fingers and released the sound transmission technique, making the voice ring in Li Ang's ears.
"The entire ghost market is divided up by eleven different forces. Kou Zhi'an is one of them—his father, Kou Wukui, is a monk in the Candle Sky Realm, but he hasn't shown his face in the ghost market for several years.
Considering that the Kou family has been oppressed and their sphere of influence has been invaded, but he never showed up.
He is probably dead. Or at least fell to the Candle Sky Realm. "
Kou Wukui. I seem to have heard this name somewhere.
Li Ang's eyes lit up, he seemed to have heard Yang Yu, a native of Chang'an, mention it.
When the Holy Empress was in power, she raised many face-headed male favorites, gave them many rewards, and even made them officials. Some face-to-face servants were proud of their pets and acted recklessly, which led to them being severely liquidated after the Shenlong coup and Li's return to power.
(Some doctorates in the history of the academy believe that the Queen's connivance with Mian Shou is due to her old age, while others secretly comment that this move is a conspiracy of the Sacred Queen. Deliberately condoning Mian Shou, male favorites, sycophants, etc., and pushing them to do anything wrong, thus blocking Attract hatred in front of the Wu clan. Wait for the Holy Queen for a hundred years so that the Wu clan will not be implicated too hard)
Most of the capitals were murdered or even stabbed to death by the Li clan. Only a few who were completely innocent or not worthy of liquidation escaped.
Kou Wukui is one of them—he and Shanzhang Lian Xuanxiao are of the same age. When he was young, he was favored by the Holy Queen because of his handsome appearance, and even asked the Holy Queen to use the resources in the palace to help him practice.
After the Shenlong coup, Kou Wukui, who was already a monk in the Xunyun Realm, escaped the pursuit of the Li clan with great difficulty, and vowed to avenge the Holy Queen to the death, and he would not share the sky with Li Yu.
'It is said that he assassinated many clans surnamed Li, as well as the dragon heroes who made great efforts in the coup. Then he disappeared. The citizens of Chang'an thought he was dead, but they didn't expect that he had been hiding in the ghost market for so many years, and he had become a candle sky.
Well, in a sense, hiding in the underground ghost market for decades until his death is indeed 'unbroken' with Li Yu's court. '
Li Ang thought so, followed behind Ya Jiu, and walked into the villa.
The whole villa is not much different from the above-ground buildings. They all have structures such as gates, pavilions, naves, and backyards. There are rockery flowers and plants in the backyard.
But it should be for the purpose of moisture resistance, the wood part of the entire villa has been replaced by stone.
"Like a coffin."
Wu Huo curled his lips and made a comment. The bald guard leading the way immediately turned his head and gave him a cold look. Behind him was a ghostly shadow of a jackal, staring at Wu Huo with his mouth open.
The ferocious appearance of a body trainer.
Wu Huo snorted coldly with disdain, and looked directly at the cruel and sinister eyes of the jackal and fierce shadow, and a larger group of dark shadows also appeared behind him, enveloping him.
"Don't make trouble."
Yu Jiu glanced at him, then quickened his pace and walked forward.
At this time, a middle-aged man in Chinese clothes came out from the backyard.
He is tall and burly, with sunken eye sockets and a straight nose. He looks like a barbarian.
"Kou Huaian?"
"Your Excellency is the honored guest introduced by Mr. Yuansou, right?"
Kou Erlang, named Kou Huaian, smiled and said: "My elder brother went to Jing country for business half a month ago, and now I am in charge of the Kou family. You can tell me anything you three have."
“.”
Yao Jiu was silent for a moment, nodded, and said, "When Kou Da was leaving, did he explain to you where some of the stumps went?"
"Are you talking about those Buddha sloughs?"
Kou Huai'an nodded, turned and walked into the middle hall, "The three follow me."
Li Ang followed Yajiu into the middle hall, and saw Kou Huaian and his subordinates explain a few words, the latter walked into the corridor and disappeared for a while, and when he reappeared, he was holding a huge wooden box in his hand.
Squeak.
After the wooden box was opened, there were some off-white or waxy-yellow musculoskeletal fragments inside.
It looks like a smashed mannequin specimen.
Kou Huaian spread his palms and said, "All we collected from the dark river are here."
“.”
Ya Jiu squatted on the ground, checked the shape of the fragments in the wooden box, stood up, and said to Li Ang, "Come and see if these things can be put together."
"Um?"
Li Ang was a little surprised, but he still went forward and checked it out.
The fragments in the box are as hard as fragments of stone statues, but there are clearly visible muscle and bone lines on the fractured surface.
Biceps, Triceps, Traps, Deltoids.
Humerus, scapula, ribs, clavicle
Li Ang didn't spend much effort, and rearranged these fragments in their respective positions, vaguely piecing together the outline of a person's upper body.
Only missing the head and left arm.
"Is everything here?"
Ya Jiu looked up at Kou Huai'an, who spread his palms innocently, "We only caught these. If you still want it, you can go to another place—the ghost city citizens who first fished out the stumps, maybe The things have already been sold elsewhere."
“.”
Yu Jiu nodded when he heard the words, and directly took out a stack of round fine gold coins like chips from his arms, and put them on the table.
This chip-like currency is commonly used in the ghost market,
However, copper chips are used in outside transactions, and chips made of pure gold should be much more expensive.
Kou Huaian nodded when he saw the gold coin, and waved his palm to ask his subordinates to put away the coin, "Do you three want to look at other things? I have them here."
"No more comparisons, Kou Erlang take care, let's just say goodbye."
Yu Jiu spoke calmly, lifted the wooden box on the ground, and threw it to Wu Huo, who was watching the play. Resolutely walked out of the courtyard.
Li Ang, who just found a point to recognize the skeletal feel, blinked and followed.
After walking out of the Kou family’s mansion, Yajiu kept silent, followed the dark river to a secluded shack in the ghost city,
He put the two boxes on the ground and opened them, and said to Li Ang, "Can you sew these parts together with thread?"
"Can be able."
Li Ang nodded, "But there are not enough parts here, and there will definitely be some defects."
"It's okay, it's only normal if there are defects."
Yu Jiu untied a ceramic bottle from the belt kit, poured some scarlet liquid from it, and poured it on the fragments in the two boxes.
呲—
A puff of smoke rose from the fragments, and all the fragments re-expanded at a speed visible to the naked eye, becoming full and full, like a human statue.
"Sew."
Ya Jiu put the cap on the ceramic bottle again, Li Ang frowned deeply, opened the medicine box anyway, put on gloves, rearranged all the pieces according to the outline of a normal human body with mulberry leather thread, and sewed them up one by one.
Soon, the fragments gradually took shape, forming an incomplete upper body.
With the right arm in the iron box, only the left arm, head, and lower body remain.
"My part is done."
Li Ang stood up, released the spell, burned the cloth gloves directly, turned to Ya Jiu and said, "Can I go?"
“.”
Yu Jiu didn't answer Li Ang's words immediately, but looked at the remnant body missing the left arm, head, and lower body, and chanted in an obscure language.
"Taiyi guards the corpse, three souls nourish the bones, seven spirits guard the flesh, and fetal spirits record the qi. The so-called Taiyin training."
Accompanied by Ya Jiu's chanting, the dense black writing on the back of the remnant body gradually emerged as on the original right arm.
The whole remnant body "lived" over,
The right arm twisted and swayed, supporting the straw covered in the iron box, holding up the headless upper body and standing upright in the iron box, facing the three of Yajiu.
sand-
The right arm of the headless corpse hovers lightly in front of the abdomen, the **** of the finger clasps the knuckle of the thumb, and the other three fingers are lifted up, making a lotus gesture in Zen Buddhism.
Pure and comfortable, flowers bloom to see Buddha.
(There is still a chapter, it’s late, don’t wait)
(end of this chapter)