Section 2: Going out
Chu Ling's understanding of the blessed land of Yuling turned out to be through the "prophet". What kind of person is this "prophet" who has such great powers.
After listening to Gao Cheng's description of the "prophet", Chu Ling stayed for a long time and told some of his own opinions about the "prophet". Chu Ling guessed that the prophet was not a human at all.
Chu Ling explained that he was conjecturing from the standpoint of an ancient research scholar. For a long time, Chu Ling has collected and learned more or less about some strange monsters in history. Ever since his father Chu Tiannan's accident, Chu Ling had become even more convinced of some ghostly things. He believes that only by finding out the secret can he completely understand the real mystery of the disappearance of the archaeological team. Especially the recent serial murders in Nancheng, which made Chu Ling even more convinced of the relationship between the archaeological team and the cursed mask of King Lanling.
Speaking of which, Chu Ling told Gao Cheng that a few days ago, he received a distress letter from the director of the Chenjiazhen Local Research Institute. The letter said that an old house was haunted. The police searched several times and found nothing suspicious.
The director used to be a classmate with Chu Ling, so he wanted him to help think of a way. Chu Ling said that if Gao Cheng was interested, he could go with him to have a look.
Gao Cheng hesitated for a moment, glanced at Yang Fan, and then nodded.
Are there ghosts in this world? Gao Cheng's heart has no bottom. What happened during this period of time has made him gradually change some of his concepts.
There is a large shopping mall on the side of the street that is doing activities. Colorful flashing lights decorate the night view of the city. However, behind such a quiet and peaceful atmosphere, who can see that those black evils are eroding everyone little by little.
The car turned a corner, and a girl jerked out of the way. Gao Cheng braked in a hurry, and the car rushed forward, almost crashing into it.
Gao Cheng rolled the car window and just wanted to speak, but was stunned. That girl turned out to be Yang Fan's girlfriend Cheng Xiaoxi. She stood in front of the car in a trance, seemingly unaware of the danger that had just occurred.
Yang Fan hurriedly got out of the car and grabbed her, and asked with a concerned face, "Xiaoxi, what's wrong with you?" What's wrong? ”
Cheng Xiaoxi closed her mouth and cried for a long time. She hugged Yang Fan and cried and said, "My parents asked me to marry someone else. Yang Fan, I don't want to marry someone else, I want to be with you. ”
When Yang Fan heard this, he stayed on the side of the road.
There was a car in the back honking desperately. Gao Cheng shouted to them: "Yang Fan, get in the car first." ”
Sitting in the car, Cheng Xiaoxi intermittently told what happened.
Regarding the relationship between Cheng Xiaoxi and Yang Fan, Cheng Xiaoxi's parents have never supported it. Especially this time Yang Fan ran out of the sanatorium, which made Cheng Xiaoxi's mother determined to let her daughter break up with him. However, in Cheng Xiaoxi's heart, except for Yang Fan, he could no longer tolerate anyone else.
So, Cheng Xiaoxi's mother began to be busy arranging for her daughter's marriage. Regardless of whether Cheng Xiaoxi agreed or not, he set up a family affair for her and let her get married at the end of the year.
"Pedantic, how can your parents be so pedantic!" Listening to Xiaoxi's words, Yang Fan shouted angrily.
"I'm not going to get married anyway. I call you and you don't answer, I don't even know what to do? Cheng Xiaoxi said with a sob.
"Let's go, let's go find your parents together. Talk to them. Yang Fan thought for a while and said.
"No, it won't. Their thinking is very stubborn, and if they can, they don't need to do it at all. Cheng Xiaoxi shook her head.
"I have an idea." Gao Cheng suddenly spoke.
"Say it quickly." Yang Fan and Cheng Xiaoxi looked at him.
"Didn't Chu Ling let us accompany him to Chenjia Town! It's better for you to bring Xiaoxi. You can get out of here for a while, stop for a while, maybe it's better. ”
"That's a good idea. That's it. Yang Fan clapped his hands in agreement.
Chenjia Town, belongs to K City. The exact location of this place is not recorded on the map. Fortunately, Chu Ling asked the director of the classmate for a detailed route map in advance.
Chu Ling drove his own private off-road vehicle. Gao Cheng sat in the co-pilot, and Yang Fan and Cheng Xiaoxi sat in the back. On the way, Chu Ling told them in detail about the haunting of Chenjiazhen.
Because of the remote location of Chenjia Town, few people have noticed this place. Liao Yusen was also transferred here last year. Originally, he felt that the transfer of him to this place where birds don't lay eggs was simply unfair treatment to him, and what was the difference between it and the distribution of the frontier.
However, after coming here, he found that Chenjia Town was originally a place with a very rich culture and history. There are many places in the town that retain remnants of antiquity. Moreover, most of these ruins are still intact and have not been visited by archaeologists and tomb robbers.
In the westernmost part of Chenjia Town, there is an ancestral hall, where the ancestors of Chenjia Town are enshrined for generations. Every winter, the people of Chenjiazhen will go to the ancestral hall to worship their ancestors.
This year, Chenjiazhen went to worship according to the previous custom. As a result, something strange happened. The first to have an accident was Aunt Fu, who was in charge of cleaning the ancestral hall. She was found dead in the ancestral hall, her neck bitten by something and her flesh blurred. At first, it was thought that he had been bitten by a wild beast that had come down from the mountains.
As a result, that same evening. Aunt Fu actually came back to life. She bites people when she sees them, just like the legendary zombies. The local villagers had no choice but to call the police. The police came a few times, but they didn't see Aunt Fu, so they thought they were talking nonsense. He almost arrested them and imprisoned them for lying to the police.
Later, Liao Yusen learned about it. He felt that Aunt Fu's illness was very strange. So, he wrote to his friends from all over the world asking for help, hoping to get exact help.
At first, Chu Ling didn't care about this matter, but later Chu Ling found that the mountain that Chenjiazhen relied on was called Chengshan. Chengshan belongs to a branch of Yuling Mountain. That is to say, behind the mountain, is the place where Chu Tiannan led the team to archaeology, Yuling Mountain.
The recent events in Nancheng, coupled with the mysterious disappearance of the archaeological team at the beginning, made Chu Ling wonder if the matter of Chen Jiazhen could also have something to do with the curse of King Lanling? So, he re-examined Liao Yusen's request for help, and finally decided to come to Chenjiazhen to find out.
After six or seven hours of turbulence, Gao Cheng and his party finally arrived at Chenjia Town when it was dark.
received Chu Ling's call, and someone from Chenjia Town quickly answered it. The leader is Liao Yusen, the director of the Chenjiazhen Cultural Research Institute, that is, Chu Ling's classmate.
Under the leadership of Liao Yusen, they walked towards Chenjia Town.
The whole town was silent, and there were not even lights. Along the way, Liao Yusen told them about the current situation in Chenjia Town.
Since Aunt Fu's corpse was transformed, there would be some inexplicable sounds coming from the ancestral hall in Chenjiazhen every night. A brave young man went in to take a look, and found that it was full of coffins. All of a sudden, the entire Chenjia Town fell into an extreme panic. The elderly people in the village were even more frightened, and they told a terrifying story about the legend of Chenjia Town.
At the end of the Ming Dynasty, Chenjia Town was still an ordinary mountain village. The people of the village relied on the mountains behind them to hunt for a living. Although the days are hard, they are also safe. On this day, a hunter named Chen Da in the village went into the mountains to hunt as usual, but accidentally met an injured old man. Chen Da bandaged the old man's wound and brought it home.
The old man had a very strange personality, and no matter what people asked him, he didn't speak. Even Chen Da, who rescued him back, didn't have a good face.
It seems that since the old man came to Chenjia Town, some villagers' livestock began to go missing. Initially, it was suspected that thieves had entered the village. So, several people made an appointment to squat together to wait. In the middle of the night, a figure appeared, and the villagers who were guarding the wait were about to rush out, but they saw the man stuffing a chicken directly into his mouth. After a while, the chicken didn't move. He actually drank chicken blood raw.
The villagers froze. What they didn't expect was that the figure rushed towards the stunned crowd after sucking the chicken blood. His appearance was also exposed to bright torches. It was clearly a vampire demon, and his face was all red spots and uneven. Two white fangs appeared on the side of his mouth, which was extremely terrifying.
The entire Chenjia Town was suddenly plunged into disaster.
Just as the people were fleeing in panic, the old man appeared. He took a strange pendant and threw it at the blood-sucking demon. The demon was instantly knocked to the ground and stopped moving.
Angry villagers rush towards the fallen demons. Wielding shovels and scythes, they slash at the demons as they seek revenge for the dead villagers. However, no matter how hard they tried, the demon who fell to the ground was not harmed in the slightest. The shovel was as hard as a stone. Finally, the old man spoke, and he asked the villagers to carry the demon to the ancestral hall, and then put some yellow paper charms on the demon's body, trapping him in the ancestral hall.
The demon was eliminated and the old man left. Before leaving, he told the villagers not to open the door to the dark room of the ancestral hall under any circumstances, otherwise the trapped demons would reappear.
This legend is known to the older generation of villagers. Of course, they thought it was just a horror legend and not real. However, when Aunt Fu's corpse changed, the old people remembered this legend, and they thought that someone must have opened the door of the dark room and released the demon trapped inside.
Director Liao said the whole thing, and the group just arrived at the entrance of the village in Chenjia Town.
The whole village was silent, which made Gao Cheng's heart a little uneasy. Could it be that there are really ghosts in this world?
The ancestral hall of Chenjiazhen was established in the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, when the imperial court ordered that "all the people of Xu should join the sect to build a temple". Its architectural style also retains the style of the Ming Dynasty. Heavy eaves rest mountain style glazed tile roof, the outer corridor is circumferential, the wooden pillars and beams in the ancestral hall, and the bucket arch jumps. It's amazing.
The main hall of the ancestral hall enshrines the tablets of the ancestors of Chenjiazhen, and below is a large meeting hall. It can be seen that the ancestral hall is a holy place that cannot be ignored in the hearts of the villagers of Chenjia Town. In the early days of liberation, the state broke feudal superstitions, overthrew ancestral halls, and burned genealogies. Some of the history that could have been known through genealogy is covered up.
Chu Ling looked around and looked ahead thoughtfully.
Now, this ancestral hall has become a forbidden area in Chenjia Town. The corpse-transformed Aunt Fu was nowhere to be found, and the lights of the entire Chenjia Town were all turned off at night, just like a dead town.
Ghost? Are there really ghosts? Gao Cheng was a little puzzled. Director Liao doesn't lie. How can a person come back to life when he dies? This is indeed a more puzzling question.
Chenjia Town at night has a lonely sense of desolation. Through the window of the ancestral hall, you can see the mountain next to Chenjia Town. Gao Cheng remembered the "prophet" who was not caught. Gao Cheng doesn't know what secrets are hidden in the Yuling Mountain behind the mountain? If, according to what Chu Ling said, everything was done by the Cursed Mask, then in order to uncover the secret of the Cursed Mask, it was necessary to go to Yuling Mountain.
I don't know why, thinking of Yuling Mountain, Gao Cheng's heart has an inexplicable sense of heaviness.
Pushing open the door of the ancestral hall, a faint moonlight entered. There were a few sparse sounds inside, which seemed to alarm the rats stealing their food, and it seemed that someone was moving softly.
Chu Ling looked at Gao Cheng and Yang Fan next to him, and twisted the flashlight in his hand. A strong light instantly reflected in the ancestral hall, and the entire ancestral hall fell into the dimming of light and extinction. More than a dozen coffins stopped in front of him, as oppressive as a dead corpse. The dust in the light flew like a fairy, revealing a cramped atmosphere.
Woo! A slight roar sounded from the depths of the ancestral hall, and Gao Cheng and Yang Fan clenched the sticks in their hands.
Chu Ling's light shot along the sound. In one corner of the offering table, the light swept out a man with a tattered and unkempt face. There was a strange whining sound from his mouth, revealing a mouthful of white teeth, and his eyes were red.
Is this the ghost? Gao Cheng frowned.
Wow! At this time, the person who was squatting on the ground suddenly jumped up, his body was agile, and he rushed straight towards Gao Cheng. Gao Cheng turned sideways and kicked his left leg.
The man slammed to the ground, still screaming incoherently.
"Look, his arm ......," Chu Ling said, moving the light to the man's arm as well. I saw that the man's arm had been corrupted into white bones. Some unknown black bugs are attached to it, which is terrible to see.
"It's weird. His arm had rotted like that, and he was still alive. This has never been seen in medicine. Chu Ling said suspiciously.
"Could it be environmental pollution or chemical erosion? Lesions have occurred. Yang Fan remembered that in some American movies, there are usually things that are biochemical into weird people.
"It's all movies. Impossible. Besides, the mountain and forest environment here is quiet and almost all of them are pristine. where comes pollution and biochemistry. Gao Cheng denied Yang Fan's speculation.
The man seemed to understand what they were saying, and kept holding his hand and scratching his face, and roaring desperately in his mouth. Suddenly, he turned his head and quickly ran towards the ancestral hall, and in the blink of an eye, he was gone.
Gao Cheng looked at the others, and then walked forward.
Under the offering table in the ancestral hall, Gao Cheng saw a half-open wooden plank, he pushed the plank, and then saw a corridor appear in front of him. Could this be the entrance to the dark room of the ancestral hall of Chenjiazhen? The legend about Chenjiazhen also poured into Gao Cheng's mind.