Chapter 6: The Cold Spring
Pushing open the vermilion wooden door, the door that had not been moved for a long time rubbed and creaked. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć infoThe Buddha Hall became dim, the Buddha statue with a hideous face loomed in the darkness, all the lights disappeared, and the entire Buddha Hall was empty. Only the messy arrangement of futons still retains the appearance of when they left.
I walked over to the golden curtain, and if Gillian was still there, she must be hiding inside. When I lifted it, it was empty.
There was still a box wrapped in Lao Yang's coat on the ground, and Gillian and the Mai woman had disappeared.
I looked at Lao Yang with a frown, and his face was also a sad face. Suddenly, as if he had thought of something, he whispered, "Oops! He immediately ran towards the back of the Buddha hall, and I couldn't see it, so I had to follow him.
"That's exactly what it is......" he sighed as he stood beside the red wood carving. I followed his gaze, and saw that the place where the woman had appeared before had been replaced by a wooden carving, as if there was only this relief here.
"They must have been curious about the cold spring, and they secretly went down by themselves. But it's easy to go down, but it's hard to come up. It was just a coincidence that we went down and came up. Lao Yang said dejectedly.
"How do you know?" I asked in disbelief.
"It's definitely not a place that you can easily go down and get out. The old woman came in and told us not to go out, let alone downstairs, to show that she was not worried that we would come down out of curiosity. There are only two reasons for that, either the place is not so easy to come down, or it is not easy to get out after coming down. So she just advised, not afraid of someone coming down at all. ā
After Lao Yang finished explaining, his hand kept stroking over the relief. He wanted to find the mechanism hidden in the shadows, and open the staircase again. After listening to his explanation, I felt that this was indeed the case. Immediately join him here and keep searching.
Suddenly, I looked back at the row of Buddha statues behind me that had turned into black shadows. Before, there was a scene where the eyes of the Buddha statue glowed collectively, although it was only for a moment, but could there be any connection between the two?
I told Lao Yang about this idea, and he even said that it made sense, and then he climbed up to the high Buddha hall, and the smell of incense full of smoke and dust was swayed by him, and the smell was choked all over the room.
I was looking down and wondering why the eyes of the Buddha statue before me were shining. Suddenly, a burst of blue-green light sprinkled down, and it looked extremely eerie in this dark space, and when I looked up, all the Buddha statues became bright and terrifying.
Soon, the light dimmed again. I ran towards the wood carving, and Yang followed me. Sure enough, a wooden staircase appeared under the wood carving, and when he looked back, Lao Yang had a knowing smile on his face.
I hurriedly ran up the stairs, mentally prepared, and sure enough, the stairs turned into a ramp with my momentum. I rolled down at once, and Lao Yang followed behind me, and the two of them rolled together, covered in dust.
Ignoring the clothes on my body, my eyes were immediately attracted by the small half-open wooden door. It is self-evident who opened this wooden door, but where did they go? Lao Yang was at the door for a moment before, and the freezing cold almost froze him, if it weren't for Gillian's presence, maybe he would be a waste person now.
Lao Yang's face suddenly turned pale, and he almost stood up from the ground trembling, with deep fear. It's not surprising that anyone who has experienced that kind of heart-piercing cold will remember it for the rest of their lives.
"Quick, go in and see if there's still alive inside?" He said to me, and then kept backing until his back was against the tan wall. Is my heart really so terrifying? I approached the wooden door.
This wooden door is too small, at most one meter and five meters high, which is a little shorter than Gillian. I could only bend over and pass sideways, pulling the wooden door to make a creaking sound like grinding my teeth in the middle of the night.
My eyes looked inside, and my heart was tense to the extreme, for fear that a cool breeze would blow in my face and frostbite me. I was stunned for a moment, there was no cold wind, no ice crystals, and I saw a round spring like jade. The spring water glows with a dark blue luster, and there is a spring water gushing out in the center, just like the legendary Baotu Spring.
The center is protruding, and all the surrounding springs are as smooth as a mirror. I was stunned by this beautiful scene, and I didn't come back to my senses for a long time. Lao Yang suddenly shouted behind me: "Hey, lost your soul?" ā
I woke up. Only then did he look at it again, and at that moment, he only felt that the gastric juice in his abdomen was overflowing, and his eyes were full of bones. Yellow, white, red, stiff, soft, twisted, submissive, countless corpses surrounded this cold pool.
The nearest corpse, with his face facing the wooden door, had strands of flesh scraped off his face, his fingers still resting on his face, and his nails were full of minced meat. This was actually digging out the flesh of my face, revealing a white skull, and I even saw the yellow teeth in my mouth through the leaky cheeks.
His expression was solemn and painful, his mouth was wide open, and it was empty. Looking at it closely, only the teeth existed, and the tongue actually disappeared out of thin air, there were no knife cuts, no traces of bites, and the tongue was as if it had never appeared. This mouth seemed so terrifying at the moment, his eyes were fixed on me, and there was pain, helplessness, and endless death in it.
This is just a representation of all the corpses, and I deeply feel the horror in it. All the corpses were men, not a single female corpse. I have a heartfelt suspicion that this is a murder, a murder that discriminates against sex.
"Look at that ......," Lao Yang pointed forward. I saw a familiar face, it was Cuong who had met the blind girl in the courtyard before. At this moment, he was constantly convulsing, his mouth was open, and he was sucking the spring water in that calm and cold pool, and every time he took a sip, a happy and satisfied smile appeared on his face.
"Heh......" he laughed, and there was still no tongue in his open mouth. The women in this village have horrible anomalies in their faces, and the men are physically disabled and their tongues have disappeared. All this is full of weirdness, it must be inseparable from the god-chasing ritual in the village, and all the men who have not been seen in this village so far have died here, why is this?
Moreover, there is not a single child in the village, where did all the children go?
Lao Yang walked over and dragged Ah Qiang away from the water's edge. But the moment his hand touched the pale arm, a sprig of flesh was slashed down his hand and fell to the ground, and the white bones of Sensen appeared in the field of vision. And Ah Qiang didn't realize it, and still ran towards the cold spring like a wolf and a tiger pounced on a rabbit, and this strange spring water seemed to have a magical magic that had a fatal temptation for him.