The Throne Under the Starry Sky Chapter 185: The Blade of the Dead (Part 2)
The battle ended very suddenly. Before "Ugly Face" Liche had time to count the number of the corpses of the leading Russian soldiers, the entire battlefield was bombarded beyond recognition. Even the flatbed truck full of skulls was blown to pieces. Seven coachmen and The air-dried head turned into a pile of sauce-red minced meat that could not distinguish each other. The entire village and town disappeared without a trace. Fortunately, it seemed that the car was parked far away on the road and was not affected. The dragon-shaped power did not reach the edge, Sanman. Tuo’s head popped out of the grass, and the coachman muttered to the Buddha in a panic. It was a clone of Zha who acted on the spot and dragged him out of the small village and hid in the grass, avoiding the calamity of vanishing form and spirit,
A figure gradually condensed in the air, and Asai bent over and pulled out the "gluttonous", slapped his sword into its sheath, and walked towards Jonah with a smile, "Why, brother Jonah, although I didn’t let me fight. It’s fun, but it’s a pleasant time."
The astrologer cowered at the Oriental, feeling that the braided and bright smiling man in front of him became very strange, "Asai, then, what is going on."
Before the Easterners had time to answer, "Ugly Face" Liche brought Zuta and the star picker to them, "Get in the car, we rush to Quvisti day and night, and kill Tan Napo to provoke us. In a big trouble, soon other demon gods will gather here." The Great Swordsman nodded to Venerable Gao Wuzhe who was chanting, motioning for him to take Jona into the car,
The group of people returned to the carriage one after another. The giant elephant lowered his head and looked languid. It should have been frightened by the devastating blow just now. The Sanmantuo tried his best to appease for a long time before reluctantly stepping out, and the wheels slowed down. Running over the scorched black soil, Jonah looked out from the window and was horrified to find that Tan Napo’s body was changing shape, one after another spherical objects bulging in the pile of minced meat,
"Half of the Ksitigarbha scripture failed to save all the resentful spirits. May they eat up their flesh and blood and do not harm others." Venerable Gao Wuzhe closed his eyelids and sighed ambiguously.
Pale hands and faces emerged one after another, countless resentful spirits howled bitterly, and began to open their mouths to gnaw Napo Tan’s body. Jonah quickly turned his head back, not daring to watch this nightmare scene again,
Zuta still looks like the big horse with a golden sword sitting upright and ignoring anyone. The star picker turned his dexterous eyes to look at Asai secretly, and when he touched the gaze of the Oriental, he quickly moved away, Asai But he seemed to be in a good mood, and he stretched out his hand to pull Jona’s sleeves: "Hey, Brother Jona, I’m not eating rice now, and I have worked hard for you, right?"
The 17-year-old boy retracted his arm like an electric shock, leaning against the side of a carriage: "Yes, yeah...you are amazing..."
The Oriental was stunned, showing his white teeth and smiling: "I know, you blame me for concealing the secret, right? Don't worry, since I summon the real body in front of you, it means that I treat you as someone who can put your heart to heart. My buddy, I will tell you whatever you ask."
"...the real body." Jonah stroked the word,
"It's a long story." Asai moved his hips and put on a long posture. "In our family that is three inches thick and the cemetery is endless, the boys and girls of the line will After a kind of ritual at an early age, I got a very strange ability. This kind of ritual requires a lot of resources and takes many years to prepare. Therefore, it is only held for the descendants of the clan. ,, you guessed it, I am a child of an insignificant branch of the collateral line. The family will use another method to provide opportunities for the collateral descendants. If the mother of the child agrees, they will open it when the child is forty-nine days old.' Wangukeng', do you know what Wangukeng is."
The astrologer shook his head in confusion,
"Of course you don't know." The oriental smiled and patted his partner on the shoulder, "It is a very deep, very deep, very big cave, dug in the deep mountain where the ancestral grave is located, and closed with an iron gate. , Hang the brass lock and lock it firmly. The forty-nine-day-old collateral descendants will be brought here by the clan elders. Open the brass lock and iron door, throw them into the cave, close the iron door and brass lock, and then open the cave three days later. Since the child was taken out, since it was called the "Wan Gu Pit", it was of course not cabbage and sweet potatoes, but bones, bones of children, bones of children who died less than forty-nine days, and the family collected these young children’s bones from various places. The bones were thrown into the pit of ten thousand bones, plus the collateral children who failed to complete the ritual and died in it. Over the years, there must be more than ten thousand children’s corpses inside."
Even though Asai told the story with a smile, Jonah felt a cold shudder. An icy picture appeared before his eyes. The crying child was thrown into the bone-laden cave, and the sun was shining. With the top of his head closed, the only thing that illuminates the darkness is the little bit of phosphorous fire. The little white hand touches the deep-sunken eye sockets of the skeleton. He didn't expect that the optimistic and lively Asai had such an experience. For a while, he didn't know what to say. What good,
"Then, these children will have three endings. First, if they are very unlucky, they will die because of cold or starvation or bites by insects. Second, if they are lucky, they will be safe after three days. Returning, from now on, became a statusless waste in the family, unable to step into the main house where the ancestor tablets were enshrined for life, relying on meagre worship, even domestic slaves would despise these incompetent masters; third, If you are lucky, you will get a strange ability in the Pit of Ten Thousand Bones. This ability varies from person to person. No one knows what form the ability will appear in and how powerful it is. In human terms, this is called the sudden change in the ability of the bloodline inheritor, just like the fire-fighting buddy named Tuwawa." The Easterners talked about the cruel past with ease, even the Venerable Gao Wuzhe of Gujing Bubo. They opened their eyelids slightly and looked at Asai with cloudy eyes.
"This, this is so cruel..." Jonah felt sad at first, and then angry, "Why do you treat your children like this? For forty-nine days, they don't know anything."
The Easterner shook his head: "No, no, you don’t understand. This is not cruelty, but the kindness of the family. In a country where wars continue, only strength is the foundation of the family. There are also countries and races in the Eastern Continent. However, the term family has a lofty status. Everyone needs to play a role in the family. This family status is the lifelong pursuit of every descendant with an ancient surname. East and West, blood is the most important factor. The descendants of the clan family have a strong innate advantage, and the "Wan Gu Peng" gives the descendants of the collateral family a small hope. Even if they die in the pile of bones, they are more humble than a lifetime. Days are much stronger."
The astrologer is very unfamiliar with this social form. His concept of "family" is limited to the surname inherited from his ancestors. In his full name d. Jonah II, d is the abbreviation of the family surname. "Second King" refers to the same name he shares with his father, and "Jona" is short for "Joshua", "Is it kind, but they don't give babies the right to choose. Maybe many children don't want to compete for a position at all. I want to spend my life peacefully." He thought about it and said,
Asai was stunned for a moment, "You are right, but the family has been passed down like this for thousands of years, and the children of the collateral line can also get ahead. This is the best hope of life.... In short, I am like this. I have acquired strange abilities. In short, I met a child who had just died in the "Pit of Ten Thousand Bones". Unconsciously, the sleeping thing in my blood was activated, and I reached a certain exchange contract with this child. , From now on can’t be separated anymore, I call my ability “A body”."
"Does it mean the warrior in rusty armor." Jonah immediately saw the image of a bandaged warrior with torn armor.
"No, no, no." The eastern man shook his fingers, "'A body' refers to this body." He pointed to the tip of his nose and blinked: "This body."
Jonah was confused: "What are you talking about, aren't you sitting next to me alive."
Asai grinned: "Correct, I am sitting next to you alive, but the body sitting next to you does not belong to me, but belongs to the child who died in the pit of ten thousand bones many years ago. ."
As soon as these words came out, the eyes of Venerable Gaowuzhe, Zulta, Starcatcher, and Jona were all concentrated on Asai’s face, and the chill rose from his back again, and Jona rubbed his eyes. Unable to believe that this guy with elastic skin, panting, eating and drinking was a dead corpse, he barely squeezed out a smile: "Asai, you are really kidding..."
"Who is joking." The Oriental squeezed his eyebrows frowning: "What good is it for me to lie to you? Bloodline ability cannot be explained too clearly. In short, what you see now is borrowed from an unknown person. My child’s body is walking in the world. This body will grow up, breathe, eat and drink, and Lazard is no different from ordinary people, and my symbiotic friend has amazing talents. It is easy to learn a good swordsmanship. Thank you for this body. , It is enough to have it and this'gluttonous' in most occasions."
Yona's throat gurgled hard, "You, you mean the one that emerged from the soil, that..."
"That gray-headed dude is the real me, yes." Asai nodded and admitted, "My body has been stored in another world, and I sleep most of the time. Of course, there are also cultivating slackers. I have always been diligent. I can’t tell if I’m alive or dead. Anyway, when I walk around with this body, my own body can still walk around in that world, but that The world is not so beautiful. When I was young, I encountered danger all day long and suffered a lot of injuries. When I grew up, I was still in tatters and couldn’t heal. The sword is called'Jiaxuan', and it is the only weapon I found that can be taken to another world. It is one of the nine famous swords in the East like'Taotie'. It ranks seventh. He is a careful, quick-tempered, and very irritable guy. "
There is silence in the carriage, no one knows how to face such a strange truth,
"Hey, because I walked around with someone else’s body, like wearing armor, it’s called a "body armor". My summoning technique can’t actually be called a summoning technique. I just call myself from a far away place. That’s right, “gluttonous” can communicate between the two worlds, saving a lot of effort to break the boundaries of space. Since that world is a little bit crueler than this world, my strength in that world is higher than most people in this world. A little bit,...say, do you understand." After saying a very awkward sentence, the Oriental stuck out his tongue, looking a little embarrassed,
No one speaks yet,
This silence continued for several hours, until the car came to a halt, San Mantuo exclaimed excitedly: "Qu Weish mentioned it."
Jonah said with difficulty: "...Asai, can I poke you in the face."