I don't know how long it took, but Zen woke up and turned around.

He heard someone talking, "Hey! Are you awake? ”

Zen struggled to open his eyes, and dimly, he saw a figure shaking in the distance, and he couldn't see who it was. He closed his eyes and rested for a while, dark luck breath, but he felt that the true qi in his body was gone! I can't help but feel a chill in my heart. Hurriedly opened his eyes again. Struggling to make out it.

Finally, he saw clearly that the figure in the distance was the cunning and vicious Zuo Shaoyang!

Zen looked around, it was the main hall of his temple, and Zuo Shaoyang sat comfortably on the chair outside the threshold of the main hall. Look at him with a smile. On the ground on the left, there is a door panel, on which lies the fractured Miao Peilan, and next to him stands a young man, it is the dead Ding Xiaosan!

Zen shouted angrily, and wanted to rush over, but then found that his legs did not obey the call at all, and when he looked down, he found that his two legs were all flopping in a strange way! I wanted to struggle, but my two hands didn't obey the call, and I turned my head to look at my body, and my two arms, from the shoulder joint down, were all turned into an impossible position. And around the neck and waist, each wrapped around a thumb-thick iron chain. On the pipa bone, a thin iron chain is also bolted! He found that he couldn't even move his butt except for moving his head a little.

Zen hissed in horror, "What did you do to the old man? ”

Zuo Shaoyang said with a smile: "I tied you with iron chains, but I don't worry, your martial arts are too high, I heard that people's pipa bones are locked, and no matter how high their martial arts are, they can't make it, so I locked your pipa bones too." But I'm still not at ease, I originally wanted to break the bones of your hands and feet, so I couldn't get it back, so I dislocated the joints of your hands and feet, by the way, I heard that people with high martial arts can kill people without using their hands and feet and only their buttocks, and for the sake of safety, I also dislocated your lumbar vertebrae. - But don't worry, as long as you answer my questions truthfully and satisfy me, I can consider helping you get the joint back. But it's faster, it's been a long time, I'm afraid that the function of your hands and feet will be affected, then I can't care about it. ”

"You! Didn't you hide in the cellar? And the old man has already deformed the iron door of the cellar, and it is impossible to reopen it at all. How did you guys get out? ”

"It's simple, hehe, because we're not hiding in the cellar at all." Zuo Shaoyang smiled proudly: "After tricking you out, I hid my sister under the offering table, and I turned on the switch in the cellar, I know that you are very alert, and you must be able to hear the sound of the switch starting, so I immediately hid on the bed in your meditation room, behind the corpse, covered with a quilt, the corpse is very smelly, but there is no way to survive." You were poisoned by me, you are already in a semi-comatose state, unable to think clearly, so this little trick still worked, you really mistakenly thought that we hid in the cellar, a random beating, accelerated the operation of the medicine in your blood, Rao is your martial arts world, but also can not resist the effect of the medicine, and after you fall asleep in the kitchen like a dead pig, I will come out and slowly rectify you! ”

"You poisoned the arrow that shot me?"

"Well, but to be precise, it's a kind of anesthetic, an anesthetic that no one in the whole Tang Dynasty knows yet, this kind of medicine is only available to me, and I used to use it to treat people and save people. This time, I went up the mountain to collect medicine, and I had to pass through the enemy blockade line, so I was worried that I would get hurt, so I brought a first aid kit just in case. And the first aid kit is equipped with this anesthetic. The arrow that shot your white-feathered armor-piercing arrow happened to have a blood groove, so I applied the anesthetic powder to it. Don't you think it's weird? After I shot you, I have been doing this and that slowly, and then I have been asking you this and that, patiently explaining to you where you have shown your feet, and if there is no purpose, I will soon die, and what are I doing with you? ”

Zen understood: "Are you deliberately delaying time so that the medicine can kick in?" ”

"Yes, if it were others, you would have fallen asleep a long time ago, your martial arts are too high, and you have persevered far longer than others, which is why I dislocated your hands, feet and spine and chained you."

Liao Chan saw Ding Xiaosan next to him, and said with a wry smile: "This little guy is also fake death?" ”

"Yes, I added anesthesia to the bun I fed him, and when he was about to fall asleep, I strangled him with a belt, and he still had some reactions at this time, so his hands and feet would move wildly, but he was powerless to struggle, of course, my strength was restrained, and it would never hurt his life. You're far away, and you're strangling him in the grass, and you can't imagine that I'm going to be a ghost, so you're tricked. ”

Ding Xiaosan sneered: "It turns out that the bun that the young master gave me has an anesthetic to make people sleep." I heard from patients in the city that after taking this anesthetic, the bone was not painful at all. I didn't expect to eat it once, but it tasted like this. It's like a good night's sleep. ”

Zuo Shaoyang turned around and smiled apologetically: "I'm sorry, junior, I can't tell you in advance, lest this ghost monk notice and make you suffer." ”

"What did the young master say, I just slept on the mountain, you worked hard to catch this bald donkey, I didn't help, and I feel guilty. Hey hey"

Liao Chan said to Zuo Shaoyang: "My ghost monk can't compare to you, you are cunning enough, admire." Well, what do you want me to do? ”

"Tell me first, why did you lure so many people up the mountain, using treasure and grain as bait to make them kill each other?"

"Can I not say this?"

"You don't have a choice, you don't say that I have to torture to extract a confession, and I don't like this either. However, I believe that my methods of torture will not be inferior to yours. Moreover, I know that you are worried that speaking out will aggravate your sin, but this fear is unnecessary, because the crime I have discovered so far is enough to make you cut off your head a hundred times. ”

"Really? Childe, what crimes have I committed? ”

"Kill, and kill more than one person!" Zuo Shaoyang turned his head to Ding Xiaosan next to him and said, "Little San, go and pull down the black silk of the statue!" ”

"Okay young master!" Ding Xiaosan ran over, grabbed the black silk and pulled it down hard, and the black silk slowly slid over and fell, revealing the statue inside.

This is not Shakyamuni Buddha, nor is it a Buddha statue of a Bodhisattva Arhat, but a monster, a monster that stands up by a man!

The monster had a huge head, a pair of eyes under the armpits, a black hole with a large bloody mouth, and two rows of sharp fangs, and the image was very hideous. The monster's huge mouth was covered with black-red marks, much like blood.

Zuo Shaoyang said again: "Push the stone slab on the pedestal away!" Push harder! It's heavy. ”

"Good!" Ding Xiaosan exerted his strength to feed, and finally pushed the big bluestone slab in front of the pedestal away, and a foul smell rushed out, choking Ding Xiaosan staggered back several steps. Pinch your nose and carefully step forward to check.

I saw a big pit below, densely packed with white and shaking things, and when I looked closely, it was the skeletons and skeletons of countless people!

Frightened, Ding Xiaosan took a few steps back, sat on the ground, and screamed, "Skull!" Dead man's bones! It's all dead man's bones down there! ”

Zuo Shaoyang was not stunned at all, and stared at Zen Dao: "When you were asleep, I thoroughly searched your temple and found that you were worshipping a monster, and there was a hidden cellar below, which was full of human bones, and the monster's mouth was full of bloodstains, what happened?" ”

Zen is silent.

Zuo Shaoyang said to Ding Xiaosan: "Smash that monster's belly open!" I'm sure there's a chunk of human flesh in there that hasn't rotted yet! ”

"Don't smash!" Zen finally spoke, "Please don't destroy this god." I confess that this god had human flesh in his belly, and after I killed it, I cut it off and gave it to God as a tribute. Throw all the bones into the pedestal below. - Please don't destroy this god, or you will be punished, and we will all do! ”

Zuo Shaoyang took a sip and said, "It turns out that you killed people to worship this evil god!" ”

"Yes," Zen saw that Zuo Shaoyang had already found evidence, and could only admit: "Lao Qu practices Tantra, which is one of the main gods that our sect believes in. This god is my own god, that is, by worshipping him, I will receive his mana and protection, and I will be able to ascend to become a god after death. This god needs to absorb the ** and souls of evil people, the more evil the people to worship, the better, and it is ineffective to worship ordinary people. And it is impossible to tell whether a person's appearance is evil or not, and only through the test can we know who is the most evil......"

"Therefore you lead people up the mountain, and reveal their treasures, and let them kill each other by all their tricks, and the one who lives to the end is naturally the most wicked of people. Then you slew the most wicked of men who lived to the end, and fed the meat to your god, and threw the bones into the cellar under the pedestal of your god. Right? ”

"Yes, this is the means we need to use to practice the Dharma."

"You killed so many people so that you could ascend to heaven for yourself? People like you will not ascend to heaven, they will only go to hell! ”

Zen said: "You don't know the beauty of worshipping this god, that's why you say this, let the old man tell you, after you know, you will definitely follow the old man to worship." After offering enough people to this god, you can become a god and become an immortal......"

"Fart! Lao Tzu would rather be a mortal than kill someone and become an immortal! ”

"Childe, you killed these people who were used as tributes to God, they are all bad people, just like that big-breasted woman, these bad people should have been killed!"

"What about the young woman? He's also a bad guy? In order to find a bad guy, so many good people have to die, how can this account be calculated? ”

"Childe, at the beginning of a person, the surname is evil! He was born vicious, but he didn't have a chance to be exposed, once the situation forced him, or the rules and morals that bound his surname were degraded, the ugliness of his surname would be exposed! I have been cultivating in this way for many years, I don't know how much I have seen, before I went up the mountain, I was well-dressed, sanctimonious, or innocent, once in front of wealth and women, once I was far away from the constraints of secular morality and royal law, and I didn't take care of it, I would kill each other, and I would do everything I could! Whether it is a father and son, a husband and wife, or a brother, they only think about killing each other. The despicable means and the cunning of the stratagem are jaw-dropping! Such a person, what can be worthy of sympathy! ”

Zuo Shaoyang was stunned for a moment: "That's because you set up such an environment, you forced them to do this, they have no choice!" ”

"I didn't force them, I watched in the dark, including this time, until the end, and you were the only one left, at least I thought. All I do is to use their preferences to provoke their evil thoughts of the three poisons of greed, hatred, and ignorance, greed is the source of hungry ghosts, hatred is the source of hell, and ignorance is the source of animals. People all have these three poisons, I just let them vent out, and see who has the deepest three poisons, this person is the sacrifice that the main god I teach and worship......"

"That's it!" Zuo Shaoyang said angrily: "There is no perfect person with no gold!" No one is a saint, I don't want to tell you about other people's surnames, I only know that you have led so many people to kill each other, and you have killed so many people with your own hands, it is a capital crime! The law of the land does not allow it! ”

Zen smiled: "Childe, everyone dies once, I have worshiped the main god for so many years, and the accumulated yin virtue is already enough, even if I die now, I can also fly into a god and become an immortal." ”

"Really? Are you really not afraid of death? ”

"Don't be afraid. Death is my destiny, and only death can allow me to get out of the cycle of the bitter sea and soar to the immortal realm. ”

"Oh? In other words, I slaughtered you now, and you can smile and see death as if you were home? Zuo Shaoyang shook the single knife in his hand.

Zen said: "If I can not die, I naturally don't want to die now, the longer this main god is worshipped, the more mana and protection I will have, and I will be able to rise to a higher god in the future." ”

You think you're writing a fantasy novel? Zuo Shaoyang scolded secretly in his stomach, and sneered on his face: "It's not impossible to leave you a life, but you have to do something for me." After doing a good job and satisfying me, I can consider not killing you myself, but sending you to the yamen to deal with it. ”

"What do you want to say first?"

"Help us get the drawbridge back!" Zuo Shaoyang said, "When I crossed the suspension bridge, I found that the suspension bridge was very strong and could not be blown away by the mountain wind, so I believe that you must have done something to remove the suspension bridge, but I searched the entire mountain peak and did not find the suspension bridge." Where did you hide the drawbridge? How do I install it? ”

"You are very smart, yes, I hid the suspension bridge, but I won't tell you in vain, of course, I am willing to use this suspension bridge in exchange for my surname." - I sent you over the precipice, and you gave me back my freedom. ”

"Freedom for you?" Zuo Shaoyang sneered, "Do you think I will agree?" ”

"You don't have a choice. Unless the three of you want to die with me! ”

"What do you mean?"

"It's very simple, the cliff is very wide, you have also tried, your sister has a lot of strength, to tell you the truth, the rope she threw out can only reach most of the distance, not the other side, and now she has been injured by me, and she can't use her strength at all. It's even more unlikely that you two will do it. And this cliff is very high, if you are going to climb down the cliff with a rope, all the things on the mountain that can be connected to the rope will not be enough for half of it, and I have already thought about this. I cut down all the extra trees and vines on the mountain and threw them off the cliff. The chains you found were too short to lock people up. You must have found the food on the mountain, and the three of you can hold out for two months at most for the half tank in the kitchen. What do you eat after that? There are not even hares on the mountain, but there are some purple-backed geranium seeds, so it's okay to be medicine, don't count on hunger. Not enough for you to eat for three or five days. ”

"Hmph, we're not going to call someone to save us?"

"Don't count on this, I have lived in the mountain for decades, this is true, this peak is called Guigu Peak, because of the smoke, and there are ghost legends, so it is sparsely populated, no one comes up all year round, except for me, it can be said that no one can help you cross this cliff! So, to kill me is to kill yourselves! ”

Zuo Shaoyang sighed: "It turns out that you have long kept this last hand." ”

"Hehe, the cunning rabbit has three holes, so that you can live a long life."

"Okay, cunning rabbit, I promise not to kill you personally, you help us find the suspension bridge to restore the original state, I will hand you over to the yamen, whether it is life or death, it depends on your creation, how about it?"

"That's the equivalent of sending me to death. No way! ”

Zuo Shaoyang thought about it again and said, "Otherwise, when we cross the cliff, I will abolish your martial arts, burn the suspension bridge, and let you fend for yourself on the top of this mountain, how about it?" ”

"How can you abolish my martial arts?"

"Broke your joints and spine in your hands and feet, and it can't be repaired."

"That's not okay, I can't move my hands and feet, can't I starve to death? That's not like you killing me! ”

"This doesn't work, that doesn't work, you name a way!" Zuo Shaoyang said angrily.

"You attach my bones, I will help you restore the drawbridge, send you over, this matter is clear, I swear that I will not hurt you, I can get you down the mountain safely. It will not hurt you or your family in the future. How is it? ”

"Fart, you think I'm a three-year-old, huh? Your bones are joined together, and it is our time of death. Can this chain hold you? You think I'm going to believe your oath? ”

"If you don't believe me, I can't help it, if you don't restore my hands and feet, I can't restore the suspension bridge to its original state, the suspension bridge is very heavy, and you must have all the martial arts to pull the suspension bridge up ......!"

"Haha," Zuo Shaoyang smiled, "The suspension bridge turned out to be under the cliff?" Haha, you said you leaked your mouth! ”

Liao Chan smiled coldly: "Aren't you talking nonsense, the suspension bridge is not a needle, and the top of this mountain is not big, except for hanging under the cliff, where can you hide?" ”

"How are you going to restore the drawbridge?"

"I can't say it, but I have to be all martial arts. I didn't lie to you, really, you can find the drawbridge on the cliff, don't say that your girl is seriously injured now, even if she is not injured at all, there is no way to pull the drawbridge up. Only I can. ”

"Don't even think about this, I won't release your tiger out of the cage for a drawbridge, not only will the three of us die at that time, but many more will die!" Zuo Shaoyang said: "I don't believe that you can pull up such a heavy suspension bridge by yourself, so there must be a mechanism to activate this suspension bridge, what I ask you now is, where is this mechanism?" ”

Zen said: "You are smart, you can find it yourself." ”

"If you don't say it, I'm going to be tortured!" Zuo Shaoyang said coldly, stood up, walked over slowly with a cane and a knife, "My torture is different from others, I will operate on all your bones one by one, just like you cut off the flesh of those dead people and feed them to you, this monster." When almost all the bones in your body are removed, you will become a real soft skin, like a puddle of mud, but you will not die, I don't know if your peerless martial arts will be able to be displayed at that time? ”

Zen smiled faintly and looked at him: "Childe, what I said definitely counts, please think again, if you let me go, I will also let you go, otherwise, we will all die together!" ”

"What I said definitely counts." Zuo Shaoyang also said coldly, "If you let you go, you will let the tiger return to the mountain!" You will continue to plague the people! Besides, you've killed so many people, it's not too much to put you to death! Don't expect the rhetoric and I'll let you go! Let's come and see if you have a hard mouth or my torture hard ......, hey! What are you doing? ”

Zuo Shaoyang found a stream of blood revealing the corner of Zen's mouth, and then, with a slight smile, his head hung down, and he didn't move. The mouth slowly loosened, and with a click, a large piece of tongue fell to the ground with blood!

This old boy actually bit his tongue and killed himself!

Zuo Shaoyang didn't expect Zen Lai's move, think about it, this old boy's martial arts are super high, this kind of person thinks very highly of himself, and he will never be insulted, otherwise he would rather die. It seems that this Zen is the same, plus what he said before, he has accumulated enough Yin Gong to worship this main god in his life, and he should be able to ascend to become a god and become an immortal, so even if he dies now, it is enough. Coupled with his advanced age, in this case, since he could not exchange his full life, he would rather "ascend" to meet his Lord God now.

Zuo Shaoyang stretched out his hand and touched Zen's carotid artery, which had stopped beating, and looked at his pupils, which were already dilated. This time it's really dead.

Miao Peilan asked outside the main hall, "Brother, is the master dead?" Ahem......"

"Yes."

"So what do we do?"

Zen committed suicide, how did you find this drawbridge? Once you've found the drawbridge, how do you pull it up? Zuo Shaoyang sighed: "I'm too tired today, let's talk about it tomorrow." ”

"Well, let's bury all these dead people, or ...... at night."

"Okay, but don't move, you will lie like this for a month, and it will be miserable if the fracture is misaligned. We'll do something. ”

"yes, yes." Ding Xiaosan also laughed on the side.

At that moment, Ding Xiaosan and Zuo Shaoyang dug a big pit in the open space outside the fence, and put all the corpses, including Zen, into the big pit and buried them.

The evil god enshrined in this hall still has a lot of bones and unrotten human flesh, this thing is not easy to clean up, the three of them discussed, and simply burned it. Anyway, there are two more zen rooms and kitchens outside. Enough for three people.

Zuo Shaoyang asked Ding Xiaosan to move out all the things that could be used in the hall first, including the hanging curtains, which could be used to weave ropes. Ding Xiaosan also moved out the box that Zuo Shaoyang dragged out of the cellar.

Zuo Shaoyang looked through the things in the box, in addition to a few worthless sundries, there were also a few robes. Miao Peilan said that it was too cold to be windy at the top of the mountain, so she asked Zuo Shaoyang to add one of the silk cotton jackets.

Zuo Shaoyang put the silk cotton jacket on his body, and let Ding Xiaosan wear the rest of the robe.

Subsequently, Ding Xiaosan set fire to the temple, and the wind on the mountain was strong, and it soon burned through the roof, and the raging fire continued to burn for several hours, and when it was dark, it was extinguished.

(To be continued)