Chapter III: Disappearance
I froze in place, a little overwhelmed, and remembered the shock I felt when I first saw the statue.
At this moment, I vaguely heard a cry for help from the mountains and forests outside the Taoist temple.
I hurriedly ran out with the camera, followed the sound and searched around, and finally saw Guo Zi and the squad leader covered in blood.
And the most creepy thing is that he is holding a broken bowl engraved with Taoist symbols in his hand, and in addition to the unconscious Xiao Yue beside him, there is also a statue of eight eyes standing next to the mountain forest.
Seeing this, I hurriedly threw down the camera and ran over, and after disappearing, Guo Zi seemed to be very frightened, and kept shouting words such as ghosts, gods, etc.
I didn't care about it at first, until I found that Xiao Yue, who had fallen to the ground, was covered in blood, but there were no obvious external injuries on her body.
I stood there stunned, at a loss, since they were both fine, whose blood was it?
The most strange thing is the weird eight-eyed stone statue, who moved the statue out of the Taoist temple.
Looking at the pale face of the squad leader, I suddenly lost control of my emotions and pushed Guo Zi to the ground, asking him what happened?
But he couldn't speak clearly, his eyes were sometimes sober and sometimes sloppy, until he looked at the broken bowl in his hand, and his heart suddenly became half cold.
As the old saying goes, it's better to believe it than not to believe it, and these two must have encountered some taboo in the mountains and forests that shouldn't be encountered.
I hurriedly picked up the unconscious squad leader and ran towards the Taoist temple, only then did I realize that the blood was flowing down her calves and spreading all the way to her skirt.
At this moment, my heart felt like I had been stabbed severely, as if I didn't even have the strength to walk.
"What the hell is going on?"
I turned to Guo Zi angrily, but he just kept repeating the words "Eight-Eyed Heavenly Venerable" and "Cheng Immortal".
Listening to the clouds and mountains and mist, he simply lost the patience to ask a madman.
Until nightfall, it was the fourth night that our team spent in the wild mountain forest.
I could barely sleep that night, and the squad leader was pale from blood loss, and although she never woke up, she still kept her breathing weakly.
Until this long, I had not had the courage to examine her injuries, and it was not just because of the moral constraints of men and women.
A wave of jealousy actually rose in my heart, why did she want to be with a person like Guo Zi who even had the ability to protect her.
The strange statue outside the Taoist temple was still standing motionless in the mountains and forests, and the stone statue was also stained with a large area of blood, which seemed to indicate that the disappearance of the two people was inextricably linked with the stone statue.
The delirious Guo Zi was still repeating those words, I knew that it was useless to ask anything at the moment, it was better to simply wait for the fat man's rescue to arrive.
The time lasted until the morning of the fifth day, when I finally heard the horn of the rescue vehicle, and I hurriedly ran out of the temple in ecstasy.
When I opened my eyes, I was startled by the scene in front of me, and the stone statue seemed to have moved more than ten meters unconsciously.
The mountains and forests behind him still have the traces of Guo Zi and the squad leader standing on the ground when they were found.
How could the stone statue move on its own this night, I looked at the strangely shaped stone statue in front of me and felt an inexplicable fear rise in my heart.
Could it be that the statue in the Taoist temple has been resurrected, punishing the squad leader and Guo Zi who do not respect the gods.
As the sound of the horn of the rescue vehicle in the distance gradually approached, I woke up from my fear and thoughts little by little, until the fat man in the car found me and Guo Zi.
This time I finally got out of danger.
The squad leader, who was seriously injured and unconscious, was pulled directly to the hospital, and Guo Zi, who was a little delirious, finally came to his senses a little bit, but he didn't say a word when he faced me and the fat man.
There is an incomprehensible taste in his eyes, and this feeling is very special, as if he is hiding some kind of secret that cannot be hidden.
In addition, he and the squad leader disappeared for a day and a night, and they had to be suspicious of this person who should have been disgusted.
When the police escorted the three of us into the car, I basically had a premonition of what was going on, after all, this time there was such a big incident, and no one could shirk their responsibilities and get out of the accident.
It's just that when I look at Guo Zi after recovering his god, I always feel like a different person.
And what happened next made me feel even more incredible, and even more aggrieved.
When the police asked the three of us in the interrogation room what had happened to them, Guo Zi, who was supposed to tell the truth, suddenly pointed his finger at me.
"This man is a murderer, I saw him hurt my girlfriend and even ripped her clothes."
I was stunned for a moment and didn't know what to do, and it wasn't until a while later that I gradually realized that I had been framed by Guo Zi.
He stood up in an instant, his face was red, and he just wanted to refute, but he didn't expect Guo Zi's next sentence to instantly make him stunned and cold.
"If you don't believe me, you can go to the camera, which has the incriminating evidence I captured."
I was speechless, thinking that there was still a video of the first night secretly taken by Guo Zi in the camera, and I instantly felt angry, but if the video was exposed.
Won't her whole life be ruined?
"Don't move your camera."
I wanted to rush out of the interrogation room like crazy for a moment, and the fat man next to me was obviously startled by Guo Zi and my actions.
And when the contents of the camera were revealed, in addition to the few photos of the two people taken along the way, there were also a few color photos with strange angles.
It seems that this should have been taken in the mountains and forests, and looking at the angle in the camera, I was caressing Xiaoyue's chest with both hands at this time.
Guo Zi stood in place with a dull expression, only the eyes on the face of the stone statue were looking directly at the camera, as if they were alive.
I know that the content in this photo is what I looked like when I found the two of them and hurriedly ran over to rescue them.
Although his hands seemed to be touching Xiaoyue's chest, he was actually doing ordinary cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
But at this time, what he said was far less powerful than Xiao Guo's naked frame, and the video in the camera that I cared about the most disappeared mysteriously.
It wasn't until later that it occurred to me that I had secretly deleted the video that night.
He couldn't help but turn his head to look at Guo Zi's eyes without saying a word, but found that he was faintly avoiding his gaze.
Just reminds me of that sentence, the person who wronged you knows better than you how wronged you are.
In the end, the police set me as the most suspect and released the fat man and Guo Zi, which caused the fat man to scold in the police station for a while.
I knew he believed in me as a person, and knew I couldn't do something like this.
In fact, when I was questioned by the police, I still kept many details, such as the mysterious stone statue in the Taoist temple, the old bowl hidden under the board and the ancient seal text, all of which were not said.
I stayed in the police station for interrogation, but I was always worried about Xiaoyue's safety, how seriously she was injured, and whether she was still out of danger?
These are the questions that have always been close to my mind.
After several days of investigation and questioning, the police carefully inspected the surroundings of the Taoist temple, but this time they found no trace of the eight-eyed stone statue in the photo.
The strange statue seemed to have evaporated and disappeared in the deep forest.
At the same time, I also heard an even more disturbing news, that is, Guo Zi and Fat Man have disappeared.
The mysterious disappearance of the two coupled with the lack of evidence suddenly became the best basis to prove their innocence.
After being released, I couldn't help but run back to the dormitory and watch as the fat man's bed appeared with a few strange symbols stained with blood.
I recognized it at a glance, these symbols are all Taoist secret texts, to the effect that they symbolize becoming immortals and sacrifices.