C5 Gathering into Yellow Soil Dispersing into Quicksand

The situation in the stone room was strange and awkward.

"There's a ghost on top!" Sheng Lianshan did not dare to act rashly, but he did not want to be pressed to the ground by a man. After a short silence, he reached out and grabbed the scholar's hand and wrote in his palm, "What is it?"

"Five Ghostss!"

The scholar wrote two words in his palm, then gently patted his shoulder, indicating for him to come along. A trace of doubt passed through Sheng Lianshan's mind, but he still stood up together with the sword in hand. He could not see, but he could barely feel the scholar's position, so he followed closely behind.

They walked in another direction, as if there was more than one passage in this stone room. Before the scholar walked, he even took the torch that had fallen on the ground with him.

In the darkness, the two of them walked quietly for an unknown distance. The scholar suddenly stopped. Sheng Lianshan, who was walking behind, almost ran into him.

"Do you have a flint?" The scholar in front turned his head and asked him in a low voice.

Sheng Lianshan took out a firestone from his pocket and handed it to him silently. A moment later, the fire lit up again. The surrounding scene appeared in front of his eyes.

This was indeed another tunnel. It was only the width of a person and the height of a person. Judging from the uneven surface of the walls, it seemed that they had not gone through much manual work. The two of them should be in the middle of this tunnel. It was dark in front and back, but they didn't know where it led to.

Opposite him was a man wearing a square scarf. His clothes were torn and tattered, but they were indeed the clothes of a scholar. His face was full of stains, and his beard was very unkempt. However, his thick eyebrows and long face made him look quite handsome. After the fire lit up, he was also sizing up Sheng Lianshan. His expression was also a little suspicious.

Both of them were silent for a while and then questioned at the same time.

"Who are you?"

"Who are you?"

The situation became awkward again. In the end, it was Sheng Lianshan who broke the awkward silence and said, "I am Sheng Lianshan. I am here to save people."

The suspicion in the scholar's eyes lessened a little, but he still cautiously asked, "You... who is your person captured by these guys?"

"A child." Sheng Lianshan keenly caught the mystery in his words, so he turned around and asked, "What do you mean? Were they captured by these guys? You just said that there were Five Ghostss on the ceiling of that stone room. What does that mean?"

Shh! " The scholar suddenly became nervous. He stretched out his hand to make Sheng Lianshan lower his voice. Then, he walked to the side and looked into the tunnel. After making sure that there was no movement in the tunnel, he turned around and said to Sheng Lianshan, "Lower your voice. Don't wake those demons up."

Sheng Lianshan raised his eyebrows and asked, "What demons? Five Ghosts?"

The scholar nodded and slowly sat to the side. He asked curiously, "You don't know anything. How did you find this place?"

Sheng Lianshan explained, "I followed the Five Ghosts all the way to this village, and then followed the villagers to this place."

The scholar glanced at the sword on his back and nodded. "That means your martial arts are not weak. You actually dared to chase those demons, and you even managed to escape the villagers' obstruction and find this place. Good, very good. Then let's work together. We can definitely escape this place."

Sheng Lianshan did not agree. Instead, he asked: "Who are you?"

When the scholar heard his question, he actually stood up and straightened his headscarf. He gave a proper bow and said, "Don't be so hasty. I forgot to introduce myself. I am Zhu Yan, Zheng Renmin. I originally wanted to go to Xiqi to study, but I didn't expect that I would be severely injured here and be captured by these evil people to be preserved alive."

As soon as he finished speaking, Sheng Lianshan's heart jumped. He asked in disbelief, "Living preserved? Do you mean those demons...?"

Zhu Yan sneered and showed his hand to Sheng Lianshan. Under the fire, there was clearly a wound on his wrist. It was obvious that he had been tied up by something for a long time. He then withdrew his hand and said, "A few days ago, I was caught by the Five Ghosts, and I was going to lose my life. Who would have thought that I would be brought here? The Five Ghosts gave me to the villagers here. They locked me up in a hole in the ground. Fortunately, I relied on my three-inch tongue. Only then did they lie to me for a few days and not kill me on the spot. Today, I found an opportunity to escape. "

He paused for a moment and continued, "These few days, the one guarding me is a fool. I spent a lot of effort and finally managed to get the whole story out of his mouth. So the people in the village had already left long ago. Now this group of people was Flowing Sand Bandit. They did not know where they learned an evil art, refining medicinal Five Ghostss with corpses. They also controlled medicinal Five Ghostss to harm people everywhere in the vicinity, looting wealth and food. Only then could they continue to live here. "

"Flowing Sand Bandit?" Sheng Lianshan was surprised to hear this. He had never heard of this group of people before.

Zhu Yan looked at him and said, "You must not be from Wei River. It is normal that you have not heard of Flowing Sand Bandit. There had always been a group of people in Wei River who specialized in stealing and looting. As Flowing Sand Bandit was hiding among the civilians, the government had no way of catching him. It was as if quicksand was hidden in the wilderness and could not be identified. Therefore, they were called Flowing Sand Bandit. The people on both sides of Wei River were deeply harmed. For this reason, they even made a song to ridicule this matter.

He saw that Sheng Lianshan still had a puzzled expression on his face, so he slowly sang out the song.

"Wei River is overflowing, both sides are pirates."

"Gathering into yellow sand, dispersing into quicksand."

"Hiding with the wind, no traces."

"Transform into a shadow, and kill when you see it."

As soon as he finished speaking, Sheng Lianshan recalled the strange actions of the villagers. He couldn't help but come to a realization. He finally understood why the villagers looked so strange. Why did they pretend not to see the Five Ghosts? So it turned out that the reason for all this secrecy was because they were the main culprits.

He frowned and thought for a moment, then asked again, "You said that medicinal Five Ghostss are refined from dead corpses, what does that mean? Could it be that a dead person can be resurrected?"

Zhu Yan replied with a gloomy expression, "It's not a revival from death. People dying from illness are not like other ways of dying. His body is relatively young and complete. They refined them into puppets with evil arts, and then they asked the mountain spirit to possess them. This turned them into Five Ghostss. Not only was the Five Ghosts extremely powerful, it was impervious to weapons and spears. "Moreover, the plague that it was infected with before it died turned into an extremely powerful corpse poison. It is one of the most terrifying demons in the legends of the northwest."

After he finished speaking, he turned his head and glanced in the direction he came from. It seemed that he still had lingering fear of the terrifying Five Ghosts.

Sheng Lianshan looked at his expression and could not help frowning.

There was actually such a strange and evil thing in the world. It was indeed greatly out of his expectations. Recalling the few strange shadows he had seen earlier, he immediately felt that it was even more troublesome. He could not help but ask, "Then do you know of any method to subdue the Five Ghosts?"

This question was clearly something that Zhu Yan had never considered before. He shook his head and said, "The Five Ghosts is exceptionally terrifying. It is definitely not something that ordinary people can deal with. How can we have any way to deal with it? At this moment, it is more important to think of a way to save our lives. Don't provoke those monsters anymore."

Sheng Lianshan thought of the unknown Yinn, and he couldn't help but ask with slight anxiousness, "Then have you ever seen the Five Ghosts capture a child?"

Zhu Yan shook his head again and said, somewhat embarrassed, "At that time, I lied to those people and said that I had a skin disease. They were afraid that I would be infected, so they locked me in a cave alone. So I have never seen anyone else."

"How did you escape to this cave?" Sheng Lianshan looked disappointed and turned to ask other questions.

Zhu Yan sighed and raised the torch to light up the surroundings. "This is a natural underground cave. There are countless forks in it. The hole I was locked in is one of them. I did not dare to go up after I broke free from the bindings. I could only search around the cave, and only then did I find this place. The cave was very big. But now, with the light of the fire, he was able to find a way out. If we work together, we might really be able to find a way out. "

But Sheng Lianshan did not move. He looked at Zhu Yan and then looked at the way he came. With a determined look, he said, "No, I want to go back. I want to find that child."

Zhu Yan almost jumped up when he heard that. He frowned and advised, "Are you crazy? Who is that child to you? The Five Ghosts is extremely sinister. He must have met with misfortune a long time ago. Why do you have to seek your own death?"

I must save him. If you don't want to go with me, you can leave on your own. " Sheng Lianshan said coldly, "But when I came here, I already alerted these Flowing Sand Bandit. Even if I can escape, I can't avoid being pursued by the Five Ghosts. Think about it and see if you can escape."

The two of them looked at each other for a long time in the tunnel. Zhu Yan's eyes looked back and forth between Sheng Lianshan's face, the sword on his back, and the dark tunnel behind him. In the end, he sighed helplessly and said, "Forget it. The sword is in your hands. You can do whatever you want."

After he said that, he took the lead. The two of them turned around. He walked back the way he had come.

This journey was not easy. Zhu Yan had always been on tenterhooks, and his footsteps were extremely slow. He was afraid that he would cause a sound and wake up the Five Ghosts. Sheng Lianshan had been thinking about where to find Yinn later and how to escape after he found Yinn, so he did not make a sound.

About fifteen minutes later, a dark hole appeared in their sight again.

Zhu Yan's face turned ugly and his hands were shaking. The fire on the torch was shaking along with his hands. It was bright and dim, which made the tunnel look very strange. Sheng Lianshan was a little scared, but with the long sword on his body, he was more confident. He took the torch and walked past Zhu Yan to the entrance of the cave.

The stone room was as quiet as when they had left not long ago. Sheng Lianshan looked around with the faint light of the fire. After making sure there was no change, he waved for Zhu Yan to come in.

Zhu Yan walked into the stone room slowly, but he just stood near the entrance of the cave, not willing to leave. He saw Sheng Lianshan raise the torch and try his best to light up the things on the top of the stone room. He could not help but ask softly, "Have you heard of the rumors about the Five Ghosts before?"

Sheng Lianshan held the torch high and wanted to illuminate the top of the stone room clearly, but no matter what, he could only barely make out some shadows. He was trying to figure out how to make the torch shine higher. When he heard Zhu Yan's words, he answered strangely, "I've never heard of it before. "But they took my horse away a few days ago. After that, I asked around and heard some rumors. "But it's not detailed. What's wrong?"

"Have you ever heard of one thing?" Zhu Yan asked, his voice shaking.

Sheng Lianshan sensed something was wrong. He turned to Zhu Yan and asked, "What is it?"

"The Five Ghosts carried the corpse. Daybreak is not the only one. Don't get close to people, and you will die if you see them!"