In the restaurant, the village chief and the village party secretary were accompanied, and a table of people sat around, and the conditions in the small place were not very good, but the dishes and chopsticks were very clean. is used to being tossed by his second uncle, and he can adapt to any environment. Zhou Tong is also the kind of person who is not too picky, the five-star hotel lives safely, and this kind of old restaurant can also sit down. At the table, the amiable cousin between the two quickly relieved the apprehensive host.

After drinking a few glasses of wine, as soon as I was nervous, the words of the simple people were revealed.

Zhou Tong took the opportunity to ask, "Are there any interesting legends in this village?"

But any such village that lives deep in the mountains will have some legends, and Pingshan Village is no exception.

The village chief burped and said, "There are some legends about wolves. Once upon a time, there were wolves living in that lacquer forest, and these wolves were very alert, always acting in groups, attacking villages, attacking sheep, and occasionally a few wolves would sneak into the village to steal children. The villagers suffered so much that many wolf hunters could not catch the whereabouts of these wolves. One day there was a Taoist priest in the village, and after the Taoist priest saw it, he said that there was an old wolf in the wolf pack who had become a spirit, and he was responsible for directing their actions, and he wanted the village to sacrifice something to the old wolf, and the old wolf would not command the wolves to attack the village when his heart was stable. ”

These stories were told by the village chief to his grandfather, and his grandfather also listened to his grandfather, and the stories handed down by the older generation were flawed and flawed, and the authenticity could still be retained.

The village chief saw that everyone else was listening quietly, so he continued: "The people in the village set up an altar in the place designated by the Taoist priest, and sent sacrifices every fifteenth month according to the requirements of the Taoist priest, and sure enough, it lasted for three months, although those wolves will still come to attack the village, but it seems that there is no more discipline, and a group of young and strong young people in the village can not only make the sheep lose nothing, but also catch one or two inexperienced wild wolves, and skin them to make clothes for their own families. The number of wolves became less and less, and the threat to the people of the village became less and less, and then there was a famine in the village, and there was really no sacrifice to sacrifice to the old wolf, so he gambled his life and left the altar idle. As a result, nothing happened, and it went on like this, and the ritual that had lasted for more than ten years was abolished. ”

After listening to this, Zhou Tong thought to himself, it is estimated that the black wolf sculpture dug out of the pit was the statue of the god used for sacrifice at that time, and the matter of the wild god did exist, but there was obviously something else in the mountain, could it be that the wild god did not continue to do it later, because the things in the mountain killed the wild god?

Zhou Tong asked again: "Are there any other legends besides this?"

"Other legends...... the village chief bowed his head and pondered for a moment, and then told another legend, but when he heard it, it had nothing to do with these things.

At this moment, a young man at the banquet interjected: "When I was a child, I heard my grandmother tell a story about what children in the village often lost. There was a time when there were a lot of children in the village, and almost every family could give birth to twins, but before the age of five, they always died for various reasons. When a pair of children were raised to the age of five, the parents watched them every day like babies, and at noon one day, when they coaxed the two children to take a nap, the adults also fell asleep in a daze, and when they woke up again, they found that the children were gone! I thought they had been taken away by some brute, but there was no trace left around them, not even signs of struggle, as if the children had run away by themselves. ”

"I've heard this story too. The village party secretary also echoed, "During that time, it was basically a matter of twins, and the single-born child was fine, so some family members lost one of them when they saw that they gave birth to twins to keep the other safe, so that the rest of the children could be raised safely." ”

"It's really immoral. He muttered in Zhou Tong's ear in a low voice, "I don't like children well, so I have to kill one." I don't believe this, Xiaotong, what do you think?"

Zhou Tong didn't respond properly, and asked, "How did those children die?"

"How did you die...... the young man and the village party secretary were stunned, the two of them didn't think about this problem, they just listened to what the elders of the family said, they really didn't know how they died?

Seeing that the atmosphere was a little stiff, the village chief said lively: "Okay, okay, let's eat, it's weird to say these things." ”

Others immediately chimed in.

Zhou Tong took their words to heart.

After the meal, the sky darkened, and Zhou Tong checked into the arranged place.

In the evening, Zhou Tong was tidying up in the room, and Ling Yuan asked, "Have you been thinking about the twins?"

"Hmm. Zhou Tong didn't hide it from Ling Yuan, and said, "I don't know why I think the matter of the wild wolf is quite fake, but the fact that the statue is placed there also confirms this legend, but I always feel that something is wrong." ”

"The twin thing is also possible. Ling Yuan said, "Many places think that twins are ominous, and they are directly born from the opposite of good and evil, and only by killing the evil can the righteous one ensure the healthy growth of the righteous one, and it is also beneficial to one's own family." ”

Zhou Tong shook off the quilt, spread the two quilts on the bed one left and one right, and responded to Ling Yuan: "Feudal superstition kills people. ”

Ling Yuan lifted a quilt and threw it on the chair next to him, and without saying a word, he got into the only remaining quilt.

Zhou Tong: "It's a little too much for the two of us to cover a quilt, right?"

"It's fine. Ling Yuan said solemnly, "I'll sleep with you in my arms." ”

Zhou Tong: "......"

Zhou Tong slowly took off his clothes, wore a thermal underwear and got into the quilt, Ling Yuan's long arms and legs immediately wrapped up, hugged Zhou Tong tightly, kissed Zhou Tong on the forehead, and couldn't help but kiss it down his eyes and nose, muttering: "Why do you look so good......

Zhou Tong burst out laughing.

"I'll see the stone carvings tomorrow. Ling Yuan's body temperature was lukewarm, his palms were broad, and it was particularly comfortable to hold his hand, and sleepiness came up, Zhou Tong said in a daze, "I was disturbed by those two people today, and I haven't looked carefully." ”

"Good. "Ling Yuan is not very interested in stone carving, but he is very worried about the big array laid in the village, I don't know what happened today I didn't go into the woods, and I went around and went to the lacquer forest, there were obviously not many traces left by the big array, and they deviated from the center of the formation, and other things were all small fights, and this big array made Ling Yuan worry in his heart.

***

Zhao Jingshan vomited more than once, the doctor came to see three times, and could not see the cause of the vomiting, but could only be seen from the blood test, Zhao Jingshan's hemoglobin loss was strict, but it would not lead him to vomit like this, so he had to prescribe some targeted blood-tonifying drugs, and told Zhao Jingshan to rest more, work less, and relax psychologically.

After the doctor left, Zhao Jingshan's body softened when he sat upright, he gasped in pain, grabbed the paper towel on the table and wiped his forehead, and the paper was suddenly soaked.

He leaned on the table and called Chen En: "Show me." ”

Chen En nodded and took off Zhao Jingshan's suit and shirt together, revealing his scarred back.

In the villa before, when the black dragon's tail swept over, the hard scales on the tail shredded Zhao Jingshan's clothes, leaving several extremely deep scars on his back, and when Chen En found the scars, he saw the bones, and finally dealt with them, but within a few days, he found that the wounds that had healed bloomed again, but this time thick black blood flowed out, accompanied by a disgusting stench.

Since then, Zhao Jingshan has often vomited, feeling that something has penetrated his body and is replacing his blood.

Chen En had no countermeasures against Zhao Jingshan's wounds, and there was no way to see the few heavenly masters he had invited, Zhao Jingshan was infected with the evil qi of the black dragon, as long as the evil qi was saved, these wounds would only recur, and they would never get better, and there was almost no possibility to remove these evil qi.

He can't do it, he really can't do it.

If Master is here, maybe it's possible......

Chen En has been searching for Ning Chenzi's traces, but he can't find it, Ning Chenzi suddenly disappeared just like back then, and he couldn't find a trace of a star.

However, what made Zhao Jingshan most painful was not the scars behind him that were always healing and blooming, but Su Jiran's ruined body.

Su Jiran was his wife, who accompanied him when he was in the most pain, but he couldn't share the wealth with her when he became a human being.

He never believed in fate, and from the day he kicked fate over and turned over to achieve great things, he believed that his fate was in his hands, and no one could control it.

However, when Su Jiran died, he still felt involuntarily, but he refused to accept it.

Since Su Jiran's death, he has preserved Su Jiran's corpse, nourished Su Jiran's corpse with evil recipes and even maintained the same appearance as a living person, constantly seeking ways to bring Su Jiran back to life, only hoping that one day, Su Jiran will wake up and look at him again.

And now, the corpse is gone, there is no hope of resurrection, nothing is left.

All suffering is in vain.

Thinking of this, the scars on Zhao Jingshan's back were even more painful, the sweat on his forehead dripped down and smashed on the tabletop, wetting the paper on the table, he gritted his teeth and ordered: "Chen En, go check for me, what kind of person is the person who rushed in that day!"

"Yes. Chen En applied the ointment to the scars on Zhao Jingshan's back and responded calmly.

***

Zhou Tong was woken up by screams in the middle of the night, and a scream outside the window pierced the night sky, directly waking up several surrounding families, Zhou Tong got up and pulled Ling Yuan: "What's going on outside?"

Ling Yuan slept on the inside of the bed, next to the window, he opened the curtain naked, opened the window and peeked out.

The sky was dark, and the light of a few flashlights flickered, dangling one pillar after another.

Ling Yuan's ear power is excellent, and he can hear it clearly from such a distance, and a man said, "Why are all the chickens dead?"

"I don't know. The woman said anxiously, "I heard movement outside, so I went out to look, and when I saw that all the chickens were dead, they were still matured to death by animals." ”

"Then how can it be that there is no sound at all, what about these dozen chickens?" The man has seen the chicken coop, and there is no trace of destruction, if a beast touches in and bites a chicken to death, but it bites a dozen of them without any movement, isn't it funny?

Ling Yuan replied to Zhou Tong: "More than a dozen chickens were bitten to death without making a sound. ”

"Go check it out. Zhou Tong didn't sleep anymore, he got dressed and walked out, woke up one step late, went out in big pants, happened to bump into Zhou Tong, rubbed his eyes and asked, "What's wrong, Xiaotong?"

"I'll go out and have a look, don't go out, don't take off the jade Buddha on your body. Zhou Tong advised.

Listening to the strict tone, he woke up for most of the time, touched the jade Buddha that had been hanging around his neck, nodded seriously, closed the door, locked the door, nested on the bed, and chanted Buddhist scriptures.

Zhou Tong ran down while putting on his coat and coat, and asked, "What's wrong?"

The people in the village are simple-minded, seeing that Zhou Tong didn't sleep in the middle of the night and specially ran down to comfort them, his heart was particularly moved, the man sighed and told the matter, the more he said, the more he felt the evil door, remembered the individual legends in the village, couldn't help but shudder, and said to the woman: "Quick, go back, offer the Buddha statue left by the ancestors of the family, go quickly." ”

Zhou Tong took a flashlight and looked at the scene, and found some straw next to the chicken fence, Zhou Tong squatted down and pulled the straw out of the crack in the wood to take a closer look, there was still a residual aura on it, and the one who killed the chicken was really not a beast, but a person.

Those two won't be like that, right...... Zhou Tong frowned, he already had a candidate for the crime in his heart.

The next day, the village chief took Zhou Tong to see the bucket of lacquer where the human bones were fished.

Now is not the season of lacquer picking, the amount of lacquer is pitiful, this bucket of lacquer is still upright in order to see the color and ask the villagers to temporarily go to the mountains to collect a little less.

Now that the oxidation is excessive, the small half bucket is as black as ink with a very high viscosity, Zhou Tong stirred it with a stick, and it was a mess of paste, which was estimated to be unusable.

He picked up the stick, and the lacquer that stuck to the stick was a little sinister, but it was not rich, and it had been stored for a long time, probably brought out of the lacquer tree, and it had nothing to do with the human bones before.

Zhou Tong put the paint back and asked again: "What about the human bones, show me." ”

Duupright handed over the human bone, and Zhou Tong couldn't cry or laugh after reading it: "Who said this is a human bone?"

"Huh?"

"It's not a human bone, it's a chicken bone. Zhou Tong said with certainty.

These people don't believe in evil and take a closer look, a few professional households who have been focusing on killing chickens and raising chickens for 30 years saw it and finally distinguished, it is indeed not human bones but chicken bones, the concept of human bones is preconceived, and a few of them were stunned and didn't see it, and they were tricked.

After realizing this, he gritted his teeth and asked, "You mean that there is no problem with this paint at all?"

"Nope. Zhou Tong shook his head, "There is a problem, there is indeed a bad aura in the paint, but it has nothing to do with the so-called human bones, I went to see it with Ling Yuan yesterday, and the statue is a wild god, but it has long been dead." ”

"Where did the evil qi come from?" asked the righteous and busy.

"In the mountains. Zhou Tong glanced back at another big mountain adjacent to the lacquer forest, and said, "I'll go into the mountain with Ling Yuan today to take a look, no matter what vision happens in the village, you have to stop it first, and bring your Jade Buddha with you?"

"Yes. "Duanzheng took out the Jade Buddha and showed it to Zhou Tong.

Zhou Tong said: "If the Jade Buddha reacts, you can call me, don't forget, you have to fool other things in the past, and wait for me to come back." ”

"Cheng!" patted his chest upright and agreed, "Xiaotong, you can rest assured that you will complete your mission." ”

"Hmm. Zhou Tong took advantage of the fact that he didn't pay attention to the left and right, and whispered, "The two new people in the village are Blue Road liars, and some of the previous things are likely to be caused by them, you should deal with it carefully, don't startle the snake." ”

When he heard it, his eyebrows were raised, what he hated most was these Blue Road liars, who had cheated money from him before!

After the matter was temporarily dealt with, Zhou Tong prepared a little in the village, took a fanny pack, changed into convenient clothes, and entered the mountains with Ling Yuan again.

Duan Fei saw that they had entered the mountain and asked He Chou: "Brother Chou, we made such a big fuss last night, why didn't we splash at all?" ”

He Chou said: "It's best if he leaves, take advantage of his absence, make some more trouble, smash his signboard, and see if the villagers still believe in him." ”

Duan Fei felt that He Chou was too reasonable, and nodded fiercely, "Brother Chou, listen to you!"

He Chou saw that Zhou Tong was gone, and dragged a handful of dog tail grass with his hand, the slender fingers were very flexible, and he quickly made up a grasshopper, He Chou took a red pen and drew a talisman on the grasshopper's belly. After the grasshopper was thrown on the ground, it came to life and chased in the direction where Zhou Tong left.

The environment is not good, they can only rely on their legs, Zhou Tong and Ling Yuan have a clear purpose, they go directly into the mountains where to drill deep, and the cuffs and trousers of their clothes are specially tied with ropes, for fear that some biting insects in the mountains will get in.

Zhou Tong walked and took out a small compass from his bag, and Ling Yuan said in surprise: "The first time I saw you use a compass, the direction here is so ugly?"

"Yes, the qi here is too mixed, yin and yang are tired, and it is much more convenient to take the compass. "Zhou Tong's compass is divided into three layers, heaven, people, and earth, and there are three stitches on it, sewing and middle, which is the most basic compass, which is still bought back by Zhou Tong, thinking that it may be able to be used in the future, but it is really used.

On the compass, there are eight palaces and twenty-four mountain directions, each with its own direction.

Zhou Tong looked at the compass while dividing the points, and finally found thirty-five directions, each of which had seven things, such as pottery puppets, wooden stakes, copper nails, jade plates, copper coins, peach wood chips, and red silk cloths.

The rune paper has festered into this state, and the aura on it has also dissipated, and these small pieces used to suppress evil spirits have all turned into a pile of waste, and they can only tell future generations what their original purpose was.

Zhou Tong memorized the thirty-five directions, arranged them, and said: "I don't think it's enough, there must be more than that, let's look for it again." ”

The two of them went around the mountains and found a few more pieces, which were put together, a total of forty-one.

Zhou Tong vaguely had an idea and asked Ling Yuan's opinion: "I guess that there are a total of forty-nine such pieces, and the number of seven seven and forty-nine is the number of Vientiane updates. Legend has it that after the opening of the world, the gods created man for seven days, but he was not satisfied with it once, and overthrew it six times, and it was not until the seventh time that it was finally finalized. Seventy-seven forty-nine has the meaning of rebirth, and it is also the same reason that people should pass seventy-seven after death. You see. He put a few pieces according to the category, sure enough, the most category is seven, and he pointed to the layout diagram he drew according to the direction of the parts, which is a triangle with seven as a number, layer by layer, directly set seven layers, what is the formation, about to come out.

"The Seven Treasures Seal the Yin Body Array. The two of them said the name of the formation in unison.

The so-called bardo body refers to a form between life and death, such as a child-like appearance, the bardo body will seek life in the underworld after death, the opportunity for resurrection, with seven as the number, repeat the seven reincarnations. And the Seven Treasures Sealing Bardo Body Array is precisely to seal the bardo body and prevent it from being resurrected, and in the long years, there is still a chance to make it return to the furnace and reincarnate, get rid of evil intentions, and regenerate oneself.

The sealed evil body was naturally at the center of the formation.

Zhou Tong roughly calculated the lower position, and he was already able to have eight points certain, he looked up at the sky, it was a little late, and it was not safe to go deeper, anyway, this big array has been here for thousands of years, and he is not in a hurry for this day or two.

Zhou Tong packed up his things, put the clues back in his bag in an orderly manner, and said to Ling Yuan, "Let's go." ”

Ling Yuan nodded.

When the two went back, they went to the statue to look at it again, Zhou Tong said: "Take the statue back, go back and let them fill in the soil pit, the paint is usually cut in the early morning when the sky is bright, and there are often people who come here to pick wild mushrooms, this pit is very dangerous to put it here." ”

I don't know what material the statue is made of, it is about half a person tall but not too heavy, Ling Yuan can carry it alone, it seems to be hollow, but when he hits the surface, the sound is dull and there is no echo to confirm that it is indeed solid inside.

Halfway through, Zhou Tong and Ling Yuan swapped hands to carry the statue back to the village.

As soon as I returned to the village, I found that there was a lot of trouble, and it was a mess.

Zhou Tong looked at the mess in the place, glanced at Duan Fei who was in a stalemate with the upright, and asked the upright: "What's wrong?"

Keeping Zhou Tong's teachings in mind, he said: "Not long after you left, these two boys came to deceive people. ”

"What a lie, speak with respect!" Duan Fei couldn't help but fight back, he was pulled by He Chou's arm and dragged back, He Chou saw Zhou Tong and them, sneered, and said: "Carry the wild god back, you are not afraid that the wild god will be angry and directly destroy the entire village?"

Zhou Tong didn't respond positively, but asked with a smile: "Then what's going on with you?"

A large pool of blood stains on the ground, spreading for nearly ten meters, a long string of splashes there can't be ignored, at the front of the bloodstains, lying the head wolf, not yet dead, staring at the people around him viciously, a pair of eyes with hatred, blood-red eyes without blinking.

The child next to him had the courage to pick up a stone and throw it at the wolf's eyes, and the wolf whined, but still stared at it and refused to show the slightest timidity.

Zhou Tong walked a few steps to the wolf's side, and when he saw that he was going over, he hurriedly dragged Zhou Tong: "Xiaotong, what are you doing?"

Zhou Tong didn't see how fierce this wolf was, Duan Zheng could see it clearly, this wolf was as tall as an adult man when he stood up, with strong limbs and sharp fangs, and when he was found, he was biting a sheep to death, and blood was splashed all over the wall.

He Chou said with a straight face: "This wolf is possessed by the wild god, don't go over, be careful to let the wild god seize the opportunity." ”

When the village chief heard this, he leaned over and said to He Chou flatteringly: "Master, look, how to resolve it, please help us." ”

He Chou saw the village chief talking to him, his eyes showed a little ruthlessness, but he left a hand and said: "You have offended the wild god, and the great sin of neglecting to worship for hundreds of years is not easy to pay, but now you have moved the wild god back from the position of the treasure cave where he was enshrined, and cut off the spiritual energy exchange between him and heaven and earth, I am afraid I can't help this matter." ”

This kind of thing Mr. Lan Dao often says, a sentence can not help can completely make the other party panic, and then just say a "but" or "whatever" can make a lot of money, dissecting people's fear psychology to the fullest, the simplest and most effective.

But He Chou underestimated Zhou Tong, he scared others, but he didn't scare Zhou Tong.

Zhou Tong ignored He Chou, who deliberately pointed the finger at him, and ignored the correct warning, walked straight to the dying wolf, squatted down, and noticed the approach of the stranger, the wolf immediately moved his body and wanted to stand up, showing his fangs and looking at Zhou Tong viciously, although it has no strength to stand up now, as long as this person is close, it is not a problem to bite to death.

The instinctive sense of self-preservation made the wolf hostile to all the qiē around him.

At the moment when Zhou Tong approached, the ferocity in the wolf's eyes flashed, and his weak body tried his best to bounce up, opening his bloody mouth and aiming at Zhou Tong's neck.

Who knows, before the wolf could bounce high, it was stomped on the head and stepped back.

Ling Yuan stepped on the wolf's head with one foot, disgusted that the blood on the wolf's body had soiled the soles of his shoes, and urged Zhou Tong: "Quick, this thing is fishy and smelly." ”

Zhou Tong: "......"