Chapter Nineteen: Running
The female ghost took us into a secret compartment under the stairs. There was a room inside. More than ten corpses were parked in the room, both men and women. I could see our customers being placed in the corner at a glance.
The old man immediately ran up, lifted the talisman paper and saw that the customer's face was blue and purple, his fingernails and teeth were already growing, and he looked extremely terrifying.
"Take it with us quickly, we'll go out, the corpse is about to change!" The old man said in a deep voice. I dared not hesitate at the moment. I pulled the customer up and felt hard after I put my shoulders on it, and it was even heavier than before.
I came out of the room with the customer on my back. As soon as I came out, I saw someone who was walking towards me in the campfire just now. I immediately retreated.
"They are in," I whispered, and the old man opened the door and glanced at me, pulled me and leaned behind the door.
Soon the sound of footsteps came in. Through the paper window of the door, I saw the old man walking in front of him, following several big men behind him, one of whom was carrying half of the body.
"Go, I'll make it with the kitchen and I'll give it to those people tomorrow!" said the old man.
Hearing this, I felt a tumbling in my stomach, and I looked at them straight and the man carrying the corpse left. The old man glanced outside and asked the people around me, "Have the two people upstairs not dealt with yet?"
"It should be soon, maybe in the room!"
"Go up and call, then come down and load the goods. Go on the road tomorrow. If you make any mistakes this time, you can just go into the pot." The old man snorted coldly, and directly scared the remaining people to tremble slightly.
He took off the rag and wiped his hands, and went upstairs on his own, while the remaining few people went upstairs with the other ones.
"Let's go!" The old man pushed open the door, I followed him, and then sneaked out the door. The bonfire was still burning. Not long after we ran out, there were screams coming from behind, and we were soon discovered.
"Run quickly." The old man pulled off the talisman paper from the customer's head, drew a strange symbol on its forehead, and slapped it on the customer's head, "Run!"
We ran one after another, followed by many people, all with weapons, machetes and other things. They had torches in their hands. The sky was gloomy and the visibility was very low.
We ran along a small path, and the female ghost was driving the way forward. I stepped on it, and felt like I was dancing. The customers who were cast by the old man jumped and jumped at the same speed as mine.
"Walk from here, don't walk the right path, there are their people below," the female ghost reminded, and pulled me up and jumped up toward a Yabi. The old man was strong and was also very fast. He stepped on Yabi, a few meters high.
As soon as we reached Yabi, gunfire came from below, hitting the edge of Yabi, leaving a hole directly on it.
"Go into the mountains and forests first, set up a maze for them." The old man shouted to the female ghost on the side. The female ghost nodded, and set up a maze on the wall with a stroke of his finger. I felt that the space was twisted for a while, and the front of me changed.
"Stop being idle, go." The old man knocked on my head and ran into the forest below with the customer and the female ghost. I glanced at the torch on the slope and followed closely with a yellow cloth bag on my back.
We didn't know how long we had been running, but the female ghost who had been leisurely suddenly pounced on my back and let out a whine.
"There is a master on the other side!" The old man opened the female ghost's eyes and saw that it turned red inside, and at the same time the female ghost's aura became much dimmed.
"Go into his body, otherwise we will be discovered sooner or later when we follow your breath!" The old man pointed at the female ghost's body, and the female ghost's body trembled slightly. After watching the old man nodded, he rushed straight to me. I only felt a chill in my chest and the figure of the female ghost was gone in front of me.
"Boy, I'm still in a daze, hurry up." The old man scolded me, and was about to slap again, I immediately lowered my head and fled with the customer.
It was not until the sun that we had been missing in the sky that we stopped on a lush tree. I leaned against the trunk and gasped. The old man had no changes at all, which made me really suspect that he was made of iron. He drew a piece of talisman paper with cinnabar and stuck it on the customer's head, and then threw it to me a poke.
"Post his teeth and cut his nails"
"Oh" I took the poke, pulled the paper above the customer's head, and poked it hard as I pressed it on. I thought it should be very hard, but it was easy to poke it off when the poke was poked. Then I cut his nails, and this guy finally looked like a corpse.
"How do you feel?" the old man asked suddenly.
"What's going on?"
“Last night”
"It's okay, at least not dead!"
"Boy, do you know why I tell you that human hearts are the most terrifying?"
"Why?" I couldn't help asking. I used to think that ghosts were terrible, but the old man's was beyond my expectations.
"Because," the old man took another sip of wine and said slowly as he looked at me, "We Onmyoji walk in the world and practiced souls, but we can't help but cannot overcome the hearts of the people!"
"I don't understand what you said"
"Ghosts only need one wish to eliminate their resentment, and people want too much. Since ancient times, no one has ever been able to save people's hearts. Just like the guys last night, they were completely destined to do whatever they wanted to achieve their goals."
"Isn't anyone punishing them?" I couldn't help asking.
"Yes, when the laws of the country are permeated to these places, they will be rewarded as they deserve!"
"National? New Party?" I heard my mother talk about something outside and said that a great man led the country to liberate, but I was not sure if it was true or not.
"But there will be darkness in the world, just like the human heart you said, the ghosts that already exist, greed and desire will eventually exist," I said.
"That's why I keep you and maintain relative peace in the spiritual world in the future!"
"I?"
Chapter completed!