Chapter 109: Half ghost

On Herring Island, in the study of Xuanritang.
"Brother, this is how things have happened. According to other juniors who returned on time, there is no sign of change on the Demon Island. Only Senior Brother Shen has not returned for some reason. I am afraid that something happened. Brother, please. Can you take a look at Demon Island in the past?"
A few candles were lit, and the study was very bright. Wang Gen, a burly figure with a heavy face, was sitting behind the desk with a solemn expression. Behind him stood Zheng Zhe, and on the other side of the desk was Xu Yanzhi. With Zeng Zhibai, it was Zeng Zhibai who spoke just now. At this moment, he looked ugly and looked anxious. After speaking, he looked at Wang Gen with expectation.
Wang Gen was silent for a moment, then Fang raised his eyes and glanced at Zeng Zhibai, and said, "Why didn't you two go to the island to search and rescue immediately?"
Zeng Zhibai and Xu Yanzhi looked at each other, both bowed their heads. After a while, Zeng Zhibai said in a low voice: "After the reopening of the Demon Island, you have repeatedly told us not to go to the island without permission. This is a strict rule and cannot be offended."
Wang Gen slowly stood up, and a candlelight not far away from him shook for a while, reflecting his face under the dim halo, making him a little gloomy and uncertain. He only heard his low voice and said: "Since you know it is Door rules, why come to beg me again?"
Zeng Zhibai was speechless. Standing next to him, Xu Yanzhi gritted his teeth, but took a step forward, saying: "Brother Wang, that Junior Brother Shen has a good talent. He has already cultivated to the high-level realm of Qi Refining. I hope that I can go to Jinhong Mountain to achieve a great career. It would be a pity if I fell on the Demon Island. Please brother, you..."
Wang Gen slowly shook his head and turned his gaze around. Xu Yanzhi was watched by him. He couldn't say anything afterwards, so he had to stop blankly, unable to hide the disappointment on his face.
Wang Gen looked unpleasant, as if he was struggling a little bit in his eyes, but in the end he still said in a deep voice, "The door rules are the door rules. Once set, you must not offend!"
Xu Yanzhi clenched his fists. Suddenly, it seemed that he couldn't bear it. He took a step forward abruptly, with a bit of anger, and said, "Brother Wang, it was also the same Senior Brother Shen five years ago. A girl from the Zhong family has disappeared. You desperately searched all over the island, and even said that you want to see people alive and dead. Why, why, after five years, you have become so indifferent. Would you rather let such a Junior brother is in danger but still sitting on the sidelines?"
The voice was sharp and piercing, and even Zeng Zhibai and Zheng Zhe who stood by were instantly moved. The difference was that Zheng Zhe was angry and shouted: "Nonsense!"
But Zeng Zhibai was shocked, and quickly pulled Xu Yanzhi back a few steps.
However, Xu Yanzhi seemed to be angry, and he continued angrily no matter what, "Senior Brother Wang, honestly, is it true that you only see the children of aristocratic families, and Junior Brother Shen is a commoner, so you look down on him?"
The muscles on Wang Gen’s face twitched, and a sharp light flashed in his eyes. Zheng Zhe beside him was furious. He stepped in front of Xu Yanzhi and shouted: "Sister Xu, if you talk nonsense again, Brother Wang doesn’t care about you. , I will not spare you lightly!"
Xu Yanzhi looked at Wang Gen angrily, then looked at Zheng Zhe, stomped his foot suddenly, turned and rushed out of the room, Zeng Zhibai gave a wry smile, saluted the two seniors, and quickly followed out.
In the study, the atmosphere was a little bit cold for a while. Wang Gen was scolded by Xu Yanzhi. It was something he hadn't seen in many years. With his current status in the Lingxiao Sect, even if it was his mentor, Elder Sun Mingyang, When talking to him, he was more respectful than the other disciples, but for many years, no one had scolded him in person like this.
Zheng Zhe turned around, frowning, glanced at Wang Gen with a slightly worried look, and stopped talking.
Wang Gen silently sat back on the chair next to the desk again. After a while, he suddenly heard him whisper: "Junior Brother, I made such a decision, is it wrong?"
Zheng Zhe was silent.
Suddenly a look of deep fatigue flashed across Wang Gen’s face, and he gave a wry smile, and said,
When I took this position, I thought it was a good thing to make contacts and show my ability, but after five years, how has it changed? Become like walking on thin ice?"
Zheng Zhe took a step, looked at Wang Gen, and said, "Brother, don't think too much about it. Now the situation is no better than that of the past. The undercurrents in the sect are surging, and the waves are treacherous. Especially after the Demon Island incident, the Gan family It’s suppressed both overtly and secretly. I have long been dissatisfied over there. Others dare not provoke them, so we have been staring at you, as long as you make a small mistake, I’m afraid that a bunch of people will rush over. time……"
In the latter words, Zheng Zhe did not go on, and Wang Gen did not follow up, but he sighed slightly and said, "There is still more than half a year left."
Zheng Zhe nodded silently. After a while, he glanced at Wang Gen again and said, "Then...what about that Junior Brother Shen?"
Wang Gen looked at the candlelight in front of him, and said nothing for a long time.
Suddenly a night breeze blew from outside the house, with a deep chill, and the candle flame suddenly fluttered, then quietly extinguished in the wind after a while, leaving only a wisp of light smoke, drifting away silently.
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The endless darkness seemed to be as endless as the sea. Shen Shi couldn't see where the future led, but when he looked back, even the path was overwhelmed by darkness. At this moment, the only one who led him forward in the darkness was that Niu Xiong who seemed to have been reduced to a ghost but somehow still retained a bit of sanity.
Shen Shi looked at the tall figure in front of him, because the surroundings were too dark, even if the distance was so close, it was very vague, and Niu Xiong pulled his hand, and the breath that came from him was as cold as ice. Like... a dead man's hand.
What happened to him?
And where is he going to take himself?
Shen Shi walked in the dark but puzzled. He didn't know how long he walked. It seemed as if Niu Xiong was taking him around and turning up and down, walking through many side roads, but there was still a ghost along the way.
As he walked like this, Shen Shi suddenly felt that there seemed to be a little more moist moisture in the surrounding air, and it seemed that the two of them had reached the depths of the earth, and the air began to be filled with a hint of sea water. Just when he was unsure, Niu Xiong took him into a very narrow corridor. The gap between the hard stone walls on both sides was small, and he could only barely allow them to pass through.
Shen Shizheng was puzzled, but Niu Xiong, who had been walking forward, suddenly stopped at this moment. Shen Shigang wanted to ask, but suddenly he saw a dim light that lit up somewhere in front of him.
It was a golden light, faint but striking, for some reason, Shen Shi vaguely felt that he seemed to have some familiar feelings. And along with that ray of light was the faint sound of water, subtle and clear, and the bursts of rhythm were exactly the rhythm that Shen Shi could not have been familiar with over the years.
That is the sound of the sea tide.
"Here……"
In the darkness, Niu Xiong's weird and hoarse voice came, whispering in a very low tone.
Under the guidance of Niu Xiong, Shen Shi walked a short distance forward in this narrow corridor, and then found a gap of two feet wide in the stone wall. The golden light penetrated from here. Enter this tunnel.
Niu Xiong motioned for Shen Shi to come, and then pointed out his head. Shen Shi was surprised, but he still leaned against him, and then carefully raised his head and looked out of the gap.
In the eye, Shen Shi found that the tunnel they were on at the moment seemed to be at a high place, and outside the gap was a huge stone chamber, several tens of meters wide, and there were dozens of weird and terrifying dark red skeletons on the surrounding stone walls. The head, inlaid between the stone cracks, emits strange red light.
In the middle of the stone room, I don't know who dug a tunnel leading to the ground, but at this moment, there is light shining from the depths of the tunnel, the golden light is shining, and it flows continuously. The corridor where Shen Shi and Niu Xiong were in the middle of the stone room, the golden gleam that penetrated through the gap, was reflected from this underground tunnel.
And the sound of the waves and tides is also faintly heard from the underground of this deep cave.
But apart from these, Shen Shi's gaze finally fell in the stone room. Beside this tunnel, there was a strange ghost with a body of pitch black and a length of more than a long. From a distance, the ghost was filled with black air, which seemed to be similar. Yin Ling, but his aura is over a hundred times stronger than Yin Ling, even his appearance is hidden in the black aura, faintly revealing a fierce aura. At this moment, it seemed to be lying on the side of the tunnel, as if sleeping.
After a long distance, Shen Shi also felt the incomparable fierceness of the ghost in the stone chamber. His heart jumped and he dared not look at it again. He quickly retracted his head, lowered his voice, and whispered to the half-human and half-ghost Niu Xiong beside him. Said: "Brother Niu, you brought me here to see this ghost, is there any intention?"
Niu Xiong made a low rubbing sound, and two strange eyes with dark red rays seemed to shoot two fires of resentment, but after all, he still seemed a little scrupulous. He pulled Shen Shi back two steps and left the gap. , Using his hoarse and weird voice, said: "The monster is called the'Yin Ghost King', and it is he who made me look like a ghost."
Shen Shi's heart jumped, and just about to ask, a voice suddenly came from the stone room, as if someone had walked in.
With that faint golden light, Shen Shi saw Niu Xiong’s hideous face suddenly becoming more and more distorted, and then he stood up all of a sudden, and at the same time, he pulled Shen Shi back to the crack. Bian, looking into the stone room, he felt bitter hatred in his mouth, gritted his teeth and said: "In addition to the evil ghost king, there is this animal!"
Shen Shi was dazed, raised his head and looked into the stone room again, only to see a figure slowly approaching in the dark corner, looking a little short in figure, walking closer, under the golden light and red light, it was also a ghost. The bones are rotten, the clothes are torn, and the face is twisted and hideous, and there are two fangs that stretch out like evil beasts, looking like evil ghosts.
In the eyes of this ghost, there was also a strange dark red light, which looked almost exactly the same as Niu Xiong.
Shen Shi looked at the ghost that suddenly appeared from a distance, watching him slowly walk to the front of the Yin Ghost King step by step. Although his face was ugly and hideous, the ghost turned out to be a little flattering and flattering, in front of the Yin Ghost King. He knelt down and knocked his head heavily.
"Ghost King, I found a good thing."
He said with a hoarse voice, flattering and flattering to the ghost king who seemed to be sleeping.
At that moment, although his voice had completely changed its tone and his face almost completely deformed, Shen Shi suddenly trembled, as if he had understood something, stunned but almost unable to control himself. He turned his head and looked at Niu Xiong, even his voice seemed A little astringent, slowly said:
"That's... Lin Hu?"
(One more chapter in the evening)