eurekapd Chapter 159 Shadow Puppet
Chapter 159 Shadow Puppet
“Woo woo woo, Senior Brother Lu!!!” Seeing that it was finally over, three disciples of the Discipline Hall jumped up from different positions and hung on Lu Wensheng like koalas. Lu Wensheng was speechless.
Xun Ruo and Ye Yingzhou looked at them with emotion, sighed, turned around and collected the things from the corpses of their sect's disciples - they would hand them over to the sect for reporting when the time came.
Yan Qingshu: "Do you want to come down first and ask your Senior Brother Lu to take a pill first?"
Several people reacted and stood up immediately, talking about Lu Wensheng's concern. Lu Wensheng also thought of the injuries on his hands, and both hands suddenly felt painful. He spread out his palms and saw that the skin and flesh on his hands were turned out, and the wounds looked very scary.
The elixir was useful, but because the rattan whip was a Yin object, it would not heal until the Yin energy attached to the hands dissipated, so Lu Wensheng simply wrapped it with a cloth strip.
Everyone was still on the stage, the puppets and actors were still standing like sculptures, and it was pitch black below the stage. Everyone couldn't help but feel nervous.
"Kakakaka——"
The sound of bones snapping came from the actor behind them. Everyone's expression changed and they turned around and stepped aside, feeling a chill running through their heads.
The stiff actor moved slightly. Just when everyone was wondering if it was not over yet and if they were being tricked, the actor got into position and sang the last part.
"I'm in this play with you
A covenant kidnaps sobriety
Even the heaven and earth will perform with you and me
The plot is tortuous and the lights are lush
A fire burns away all grudges
Performing with life, destined to be trapped in the song
The empty door where people have dispersed is an unfinished play
The turbid wine writes down the wasted time, winding and turning into bubbles
Sing a song
Let cause and effect end the entanglement
It turned out to be a sloppy beginning
Don’t deserve perfect results.”
The actor's burned eye sockets and the bulging eyeball on the other side were bleeding tears and blood. The costumed puppet standing next to him was tottering, and the silk threads on its body had broken its limbs. As the dust rose, the theater fell into complete silence. A bright light was cast in, and a red door appeared at the opposite end of the stage. The light came from the open door.
The blurry auditorium was revealed at this moment, and the field of vision suddenly became wide. The auditorium was filled with corpses piled up together. Most of the bodies were separated or turned into minced meat mixed with clothes, making it impossible to distinguish them. Some of them had already exposed their white bones.
There were maggots crawling on the corpse, they passed through the broken skin and kept gnawing at the remaining muscles and rotten tissue. Those creatures covered with pus and rotten matter were destroying the last bit of dignity of the corpse.
At the same time, the scene at the top of the theater became clearer and clearer. On the beams of the ceiling, rattan whips were wrapped around corpses, tightly binding them inside. Several shriveled arms hung from the interlaced gaps, and some white bones could be vaguely glimpsed through the cracks.
The overwhelming stench seemed to be released all of a sudden, almost penetrating the pores of every person present. The impact on both the visual and olfactory senses was extremely strong.
Everyone endured the pain and walked through the sickening soreness emanating from the rotting corpses. They carefully walked around the bodies with their shoes, but inevitably stepped on the oozing acid. No one dared to look at them for fear that they would vomit on the spot. They endured the nausea and walked towards the reopened door of the theater.
The moment they came out, everyone tacitly stacked several layers of cleansing magic on themselves - because of the formation, they couldn't retain spiritual energy for circulation, and the spiritual energy stored in the body was used less, but this scene was really unbearable, it was a double torture of the mind and body.
If conditions allowed, Lu Wensheng would have wanted to find water to wash the clothes on the spot.
Yan Qingshu wiped her face with a handkerchief and the blood stains on her clothes were cleaned, but she still felt the smell of blood. She was directly sprayed with "strawberry milkshake" and she felt that she would have nightmares at night.
They had only walked a few steps when they suddenly smelled a strong smell of burning. Turning around, they saw tongues of flame with thick smoke crawling out from the windows of the theater, getting more and more intense, as if they were going to burn through the dark sky.
Sparks and fireballs rolled down the burnt wood, and smoke rolled up. The fireballs descended in mid-air and met the burning pillars below. They jumped up in ecstasy, exploding countless sparks. With a crash, the theater building collapsed part by part and was engulfed by flames.
As the wind blew, sparks wrapped in ashes flew into the sky, and the theater seemed to be gradually blown away, as if it had never appeared.
Everyone looked at each other, not knowing what to say. After coming to their senses, they used the communication jade slips to send messages to other fellow disciples who had been separated, but there was no response.
However, they were able to send the message, so they left messages and waited for replies.
So where might Jiang Xiuyuan be assigned? Lu Wensheng sent a message to everyone he knew, and then he thought of Jiang Xiuyuan and glanced at Jiang Jinfeng.
Jiang Jinfeng didn't say a word the whole time in the theater. When he came out at this moment, he stood with his arms folded at a distance away from Lu Wensheng and the others. He only sent a message to Jiang Xiuyuan, but also did not receive a reply. He noticed Lu Wensheng's gaze and glared back.
Why is this guy so honest? He didn't do anything naughty? Is he going to let him off a big horn? Lu Wensheng looked away, thinking.
The theater was gone, and the road ahead that was blocked by ghost walls was naturally restored. Lu Wensheng and the others continued walking along the road. The surrounding scene was a town street. There were still stalls on the roadside, but most of the supports had fallen apart. There were rotten vegetables and fruits scattered on the ground, and the doors and windows of the shops were broken.
The broken-down stalls and the doors and windows of the buildings were all covered with thick dust, and it was obvious that something had happened.
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"Playing musical instruments and singing cannot express all the ghosts in the world
A window of sandpaper locks up the light and shadow
A puppet of strings
It's the demon in the lyrics
Is a passer-by who laughs and scolds in the midst of the gongs and drums
Trapped on a three-foot stage, looking back is a century of loneliness
Imprison me forever~
Hehehe, my prepared shadow puppets, the show is about to begin! If you can’t catch up, your skins will belong to me~”
The shadow of the huge shadow puppet almost covered the entire stage. It was the image of a general in the shadow play. His body was brightly colored, his eyes revealed in the silhouette were red, and his voice was filled with a crazy laugh. The backs of the people were projected on the white screen, and compared with the huge shadow puppet, they looked like toys.
Countless shadow puppets as tall as a person hung down from the curtain, separating each person. As the curtain vibrated, everyone discovered that the platform under their feet was rotating. The space around them was twisting, and densely packed shadow puppets were moving around.
"Hehehe, the more realistic your performance is, the more satisfied I am~" The voice of the giant shadow puppet came from above.
(There are many fan fictions and paintings in the book circle, and they are well written)