Chapter 64: The Fox Sacrifice Ceremony (5)
Chen Zhi turned on the flashlight on his mobile phone and took a picture of the temple, but he didn't see anyone. He walked to the door of the broken temple with the ghost knife, and whispered a few "Erkui", but no one answered, and the entire broken temple was quiet and dark.
Chen Zhi and the ghost knife walked into the temple lightly, Chen Zhi first shone around with a flashlight, although the outside of this temple looked tattered, but the interior was very complete. Colorful curtains are hung everywhere in the temple, and the smell of mold is filled.
Directly in front of the temple is a statue of a god, which is not clearly visible. Chen Zhi took a photo with an electric rod, this statue is carved with a woman, graceful and lifelike, the smile on her face is very evil, and her body is coated with gold leaf, I don't know what age it is, at first glance I thought it was a smiling woman hiding behind the curtain.
In front of the idol is an offering table, covered with a long tablecloth, on which steamed buns and fruits are offered, all of which have been moldy for a long time. There is a tablet on the table, which reads: "Fox Fairy Niangniang Imperial Seat".
Chen Zhi thought in his heart, "This is probably the fox fairy enshrined in their village" and walked over and shouted softly, "Erkui, we are here."
He and the ghost knife took a flashlight and searched around the temple, but they didn't find half a figure, the temperature in the mountain was very low, and the pillars in the temple were full of frost.
Chen Zhi felt that things didn't seem to be good, Erkui looked very serious at the time, and he shouldn't miss the appointment. Now, he and Chun Hua'er didn't appear here as promised, for two reasons, one was that they couldn't wait for Chen Zhi, so they escaped from the village first. The second is that they were discovered.
At this time, Chen Zhi felt that something was wrong under his feet, some sticky, as if there was a sticky liquid under his feet.
He shone it under his feet with a flashlight, and saw that there was a pool of red liquid on the green bricks on the ground, and the ghost knife squatted down and touched it with his hand, and said to Chen Zhi: "It's blood."
Chen Zhi shone a flashlight at the source of the blood, which had flowed from under the table where the sacrifices were kept, and the corner of the tablecloth had been dyed red.
Chen Zhi held his breath and held the flashlight, walked lightly to the table, and slowly picked up the tablecloth with a knife, and was immediately shocked.
Just behind the tablecloth, Erkui was lying there with his eyes cloudy, already dead. There were many knives in his chest, he was covered in blood, his eyes were protruding, and he didn't look dead.
At this moment, there was a commotion behind Chen Zhi, and a figure jumped in from the door.
"Who?" Chen Zhi quickly turned around and reached out to grab someone's throat.
But the person who came grabbed his hand steadily, and the man said, "Mother, what do you want to do?" You want to strangle me? ”
Chen Zhi took a closer look, and the person who jumped in was Fat Wei.
Chen Zhi immediately breathed a sigh of relief, in fact, he had been worried that something would happen to Fat Wei, he asked Fat Wei, "How is it?" See the leaves? ”
"No", Fat Wei shook his head, a hint of loneliness flashed in his eyes, "I turned into the window of her house, her house was empty, there was no one, I saw that the clothes of the leaves were all folded on the kang, and I shouldn't have gone out." ”
Chen Zhi patted Fat Wei and said, "Don't think so much now, let's find a way to get out first, and we are making plans." ”
Fat Wei looked at Erkui's corpse on the ground and said, "These villagers are really crazy, they even killed their own people, and they really became animals in the mountains. ”
Chen Zhi nodded and said: "Erkui and Chunhua'er may have been discovered here, Erkui died not long ago, it is estimated that Chunhua'er is in the hands of those villagers now, according to what Erkui said, she may be sent to the fox hole tonight." ”
"Look over there", it was the ghost knife who spoke from behind, and he pointed to the back mountain outside the window.
Chen Zhi looked along his fingers.
From a distance, I saw a line of black shadows playing shining torches, forming a fire snake, slowly, walking towards the back mountain, and had already walked a long way.
"Let's go! We follow them and they will take us to the fox hole. After Chen Zhi finished speaking, he motioned for the ghost knife and Fat Wei to run out of the broken temple and follow the firelight.
The three of them quickly ran towards the fire in the night, tracking is a technical job, they must first prevent being seen by others, so the steps must be very light, but the speed and reflexes must be very fast. In the process of running, Chen Zhi noticed the kung fu on the ghost knife again, although his speed was fast, but his body was very stable, he couldn't hear the slightest breathing sound during the whole running process, and Fat Wei was okay, in comparison, Chen Zhi's breathing was relatively rapid.
The three of them followed the villagers up the mountain and walked in the mountains for nearly three hours.
Chen Zhi soon discovered that they had entered the depths of the Great Xing'an Mountains, which was definitely an undeveloped primeval deep forest, the temperature on the mountain was very low, the surrounding trees were tall and invisible, and the trees were covered with hard frost. The stiff leaves rattled in the cold wind, and the wind hit the face like knives, and the sound of wild beasts came from time to time in the mountains. The deep mountain road in the Great Khingan Mountains is very difficult to walk, and the stones on the mountain are bright and hard. Two hands grabbed on it, and if you were not careful, it was a deep bloody wound. The pedestrian in front seemed to be very familiar with the mountain road, and walked very fast, Chen Zhi dimly saw that there were about a dozen people, two of them carrying a long stick, and a woman was tied to it. The woman seemed to be gagged, and she couldn't hear a sound, probably the spring flowers that were sacrificed to the gods tonight.
Just as they were getting closer and closer to the villagers in front of them, Chen Zhi saw from a distance that the team in front of them seemed to stop.
Chen Zhi and the others also slowed down, jumped on top of a big rock, and looked at the firelight in the dark mountain. Because they ran so fast just now, their villagers are only about 20 meters away.
Chen Zhi saw that the place where the villagers stopped seemed to be a large smooth stone slab, which was very large, about thirty or forty square meters. The villagers unloaded the spring flowers from the sticks and placed them in the middle of the stone slabs.
Chen Zhi saw from a distance that the person standing in front of those villagers was Chunhua'er's father.
After Chunhua'er unloaded the stick, he seemed to be very frightened, and kept begging his father for protection, Chen Zhi could hear Chunhua'er's crying here, but his father didn't seem to be moved, under the flickering firelight, Chen Zhi saw his father's face, and seemed to be smiling.
When Chen Zhi and the three of them were studying the next move. Suddenly, the whole mountain shook like an earthquake, all the trees were shaken, and a flock of mountain birds flew out of the forest with a "whoosh", as if some huge beast was running from here.
At this time, I saw the villagers shouting loudly: "The fox fairy is here!" Come on! ”。
The torches fell, and a group of villagers rolled and climbed, running down the hill like crazy. There seems to be something terrible coming out of the mountains.
Chen Zhi and the others quickly jumped down and hid behind a huge rock, and they saw that the group of villagers disappeared into the darkness with shouts like a group of black shadows, and the mountain returned to a dead silence.
Chen Zhi and the three of them came out of the stones, climbed high, and looked ahead.
It was pitch black ahead, and I couldn't see clearly. I could see that on the stone slab, some torches had not yet burned out, scattered on the ground, and by the slight light of the fire, I could see Spring Flower lying on the stone slab, trembling violently, and her face distorted with great fear.