Yin Shou Shu

Chapter 179 Nuomi
In the nest at the edge of the candlelight, strange noises came from the darkness.

The shapeshifting monsters in the Rhinoceros Cave had apparently chased them in, all the way to the depths of the underground nest where Ran Qing and the others were.

In addition, there was a group of strange macaques next to the coffin, roaring and shouting, and pounced on the giant snake's corpse like crazy and bit it madly.

The underground nest was extremely lively at this moment, a far cry from the dead silence before.

Ran Qing and the others seemed to have arrived at a market, with sounds coming from all directions, and they were completely surrounded.

Little Cotton, who has always been timid, was the first to be frightened.

"Ran Qing, I don't want to die..."

Little Cotton's voice was trembling.

Ran Qing stared intently at the darkness around him and said, "Don't worry, those things don't seem to be able to get in..."

I don’t know if it’s because of the group of strange macaques next to the coffin, or because of the painful and creepy bronze soul-guiding lamp on the coffin.

The group of eerie porcelain-white Buddhas at the edge of the candlelight did not approach.

They stopped at the junction of darkness and light, smiling sinisterly and looking creepy, but they remained motionless.

And those witches and monsters in the darkness were hiding in the shadows behind this group of porcelain white Bodhisattvas, and were even farther away.

The group of evil monsters that chased in from the Rhinoceros Cave all gathered outside the edge of the candlelight, seemingly afraid to enter the range of the candlelight.

Long Zongshu asked in confusion, "Can this soul-guiding lamp also exorcise evil spirits?"

Ran Qing shook his head, his eyes fixed on the porcelain white Buddhas around him and the group of crazy macaques next to them.

He said, "The soul-guiding lamp cannot drive away evil spirits, but there may be a terrifying demon inside the lamp."

"These ghosts may be afraid of the devil in the lamp."

"Maybe they're afraid of these monkeys..."

Ran Qing looked at the giant snake's corpse.

The group of monkeys were biting the giant snake's corpse crazily and wantonly. Their shadows were wriggling under their feet, and they were clearly snake shadows.

Having eaten the giant snake's corpse, they had already been possessed by the snake god.

Although the snake god was dead and its consciousness was destroyed by the thunder from the sky by Taoist Zhang hundreds of years ago, the evil spirit remaining in its body had killed the group of monkeys.

Today's group of macaques may be the most evil existence at the top of the food chain in the underground tiankeng.

Because they are the incarnation of the corpse of the snake god.

Most importantly, the snake god's body was shrunken, but these monkeys were still alive and able to move freely...

Little Mianhua curled up nervously in Mo Li's arms, looking at the monkeys anxiously, and asked, "Ran Qing, what should we do? Should we take the initiative?"

This group of monkeys were crazy and weird. They were biting the giant snake's corpse frantically like drunkards and were completely attracted to the giant snake's corpse.

But what is crazy and insane are only their sounds and behaviors.

Even though the monkeys' behavior became more and more crazy, their eyes remained cold and gray, and they stared at Ran Qing and the others coldly and sinisterly.

Their eyeballs seem to be a different consciousness from their bodies.

No matter which direction their bodies tilted, no matter what strange movements they made, their heads were always facing Ran Qing and the others, staring at them intently.

This scene is extremely strange.

Even though Long Zongshu's cousin was holding his head and curled up in the shadow of the coffin, he seemed to be able to feel the terrifying gaze and let out a trembling cry with a tearful tone.

"Don't eat me! I'm not tasty!"

"My flesh is stinky! I don't bathe! Don't eat me!"

Long Zongshu's cousin was terrified and cried for mercy.

The evil spirit that entered his brain made him crazy, but it also strengthened his perception of such evil things.

Seeing him crying so desperately, Long Zongshu and Mo Li felt a little uneasy.

Ran Qing gently comforted his companions: "Don't be anxious, wait and see..."

Ran Qing wasn't too afraid of the strange Bodhisattvas and the witches outside. He could just temporarily open a Yin altar and fight these evil spirits to the death.

And with Long Zongshu's help, we don't have to be afraid of these things.

The trouble now is the group of monkeys next to the coffin.

These monkeys were possessed by the snake god and turned into zombies. Although the snake god's consciousness had disappeared, the remaining instincts of his corpse remained, and his instincts remained in the bodies of these monkeys.

If you open a Yin altar and burn incense in front of the snake god, you have no idea how these monkeys will react.

The evil lord of Zangke is extremely sensitive to incense.

Ran Qing was not sure whether the monkeys would attack them.

After all, these monkeys are just zombies, driven only by instinct. Their behavior is illogical and difficult to predict.

Thinking of this, Ran Qing took out the glutinous rice from the canvas bag and divided it among Long Zongshu and Mo Li.

"I finally understand why Aunt Six asked me to prepare glutinous rice..."

In Aunt Liu’s booklet, the description of Huaga Tiankeng is very simple, consisting of only one sentence.

——Bring the best glutinous rice.

Ran Qing originally thought that there were zombies in the sinkhole, but now it seems that there are no zombies. The glutinous rice is used to protect against these monkeys.

They are not zombies, but sticky rice is still very effective against these walking corpses and empty shells.

After Ran Qing and others took out the glutinous rice, a faint rice fragrance spread in the darkness.

The rice fragrance is very faint, and ordinary people cannot smell it unless they put their nose close to the glutinous rice.

But the monkeys were very sensitive to the smell of rice.

They were all startled even though they were about ten meters away.

The moment the glutinous rice was taken out, almost all the monkeys were startled in unison and jumped up with strange cries.

Little Mianhua was a little surprised: "Are these monkeys afraid of sticky rice?"

Ran Qing had no time to explain at this moment. He just stared at this group of strange monkeys, holding the glutinous rice, ready to attack.

The group of monkeys seemed to be intimidated by Ran Qing's aura, and also seemed to be frightened by the white glutinous rice.

The monkeys who had been staring at them with sinister eyes now turned their heads stiffly and slowly, not daring to look at Ran Qing and the others anymore.

Although they were obviously observing secretly from the corner of their eyes.

But at least for this moment, the monkeys retreated.

Although there were one or two monkeys that bared their teeth angrily at Ran Qing and the others, making ferocious howls, as if they were about to rush over.

But this kind of bluffing howling only showed the monkeys' anxiety.

At this moment, the pressure in Ran Qing's heart was slightly relieved.

But he did not get carried away and do anything more extreme to provoke the group of monkeys. Instead, he curled up in the shadow of the coffin with Mo Li and Long Zongshu, continuing to stare directly at the group of monkeys, maintaining a strange stalemate.

Don't dare to provoke.

The monkeys' cries beside the coffin gradually became quieter.

They are not as wild and reckless as before.

The high-quality glutinous rice that Lao Yangpi found had a deterrent effect.

The fur of this group of monkeys has turned red. Each crazy monkey looks like a drunkard with a red face in a town market, and can't even walk steadily.

But they didn't dare to get close to the edge of the coffin, and they kept gnawing and chewing on the giant snake's corpse for a long time.

Finally, the monkeys, having eaten almost enough, dispersed.

They ran in the opposite direction of the coffin, squeaking and disappearing into the darkness.

(End of this chapter)