Chapter Twenty-Five: Eighteen and the Great Pillar
I pulled the kid up and asked him what was going on. He told me that after saying goodbye to us from the morgue, he took Fang Lanlan back to the bureau with him, but he was beaten with a sack on the way, and when he woke up, he found that he had been taken to such a ghost place. After a few circles inside, not only did he not find his way out, but he encountered a lot of evil spirits. After going around for a long time, he found a fire here, so he ran towards us, but he met us halfway, thinking that it was some evil and scared to death. If I hadn't slapped him, I guess it would have taken us a while.
Fang Lanlan added at this time: "It's not a person, it's a ghost, you were caught in a sack at that time, I originally wanted to save you, but you even flew out directly with a sack, the speed was very fast, I couldn't catch up with the car, and then chased all the way to the western suburbs and found that you entered the factory." I called the Horse Bureau, and the Horse Bureau sent Zhou Zuqing to rescue you. As a result, there was no movement for a few hours, and I was worried that you were in danger, so I went to Brother Guo for help. ”
I frowned and asked Yan Siming, "Then do you know who brought you here?" ”
This kid stretched out his hands and emphasized again, he was knocked unconscious by someone with a sack sleeve, and when he woke up, he found himself in such a ghost place, and he didn't know who did it! After speaking, he didn't forget to slap the palm of his hand, and said angrily: "I don't know who ate the gall of the bear and the leopard, and dared to kidnap and patrol!" When I go out, I have to arrest him and correct the Fa on the spot! ”
I said in my heart that you catch a fart, according to Fang Lanlan's description, this kid should have been captured by a spell similar to a ghost carrying a sedan chair. It is said that the ghost carrying the sedan chair is a magician using four little ghosts to cast a spell, which can lift people up like a sedan chair, and can travel thousands of miles overnight. This occult sorcerer uses evil to commit crimes, leaving no trace at all.
At this point, it's pretty much clear. But there is one question that has been hanging over my heart like a stone. Is the person who captured Yan Siming the same person who captured Fang Lanlan last time? If it is the same person, what is the purpose of this person?
Now that we have found Yan Siming, our task is completed, and the only thing we have to do now is to quickly find a way to get out, this ghost place, if you stay for a minute longer, it will be more dangerous. Let's talk about whether we can find our way back, even if we find our way back, we are from the bottom of the pool, how can we go up? Even if you go up, you can't guarantee that you can pass safely, not to mention that there are weasels, ghost-faced bats and other dead things behind you.
As I spoke, the sound of jumping steps behind me sounded again, and I said in my heart that it was bad, and the zombies caught up with the smell of people. Yan Siming saw a large number of zombies, and he couldn't speak: "This is... Is this a zombie? Now what? ”
I'm speechless, what else can I do, hurry up and run! Several people ran forward like a run for their lives, and they were so tired that they were out of breath before they stopped.
Fang Lanlan gasped and said, "There is no road ahead." ”
Only then did I realize that there was a cliff in front of me, leading to the ground.
Lin Bing shouted on my back, "Look, there's a bridge. ”
Looking in the direction of this girl's finger, it was indeed a bridge, about 100 meters, leading to the opposite side. At the other end of the bridge, a circular stone platform is attached, and it is not difficult to see that there are some stone pillars standing on the periphery of the stone platform.
Yan Siming pointed to the other side of the bridge and said, "Let's go over there, it's safe over there." ”
The bridge deck is paved with wooden planks, and in some places it has rotted so badly that stepping on it makes a "click" sound, and there is a possibility of breaking if you don't leave a sound.
Lin Bing said with a crying voice: "This bridge won't break, right?" ”
As soon as she finished speaking, a plank under my feet snapped, but fortunately I was quick to react, and the moment I fell, my hands clinged to the chains on both sides. Looking at the cliff below him, Lin Bing screamed "wow": "Second throw, you have to hold on!" I don't want to die. ”
I told her not to move on my back and not to look down.
Yan Siming stretched out his hand and pulled me, and finally came up without danger. We walked along the chains on both sides and avoided stepping on the wood. We were worried all the way, but fortunately we were lucky, and there were no more accidents during the period.
When I stepped on the stone platform, I found that the surface of the stone platform was depicted with Tai Chi patterns, which may have been too long, and the eyes of the yin and yang fish had been blurred. Count the stone pillars on both sides, eighteen whole, each of which is as thick as two hugs. Underneath the stone platform is an open ground in a square shape with a jumble of broken stones.
Fang Lanlan walked to the side of the stone pillar and touched it, and terrifying grimaces immediately appeared on the surface of the stone pillar, which frightened the girl and hurriedly retreated.
I told them not to mess around with the stuff, and looked around them and said it looked like a deserted altar.
This place is definitely not made by modern people, and it can be estimated that the clothing of the zongzi before is at least a product of the Ming and Qing dynasties. At that time, there were many religions, in addition to the three schools of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism, there were also white lotus sects, blood clothes cults and other cults. This place may be the site of a denomination.
At this time, a large number of zombies had chased to the opposite side, and a few of them had already jumped onto the bridge deck, but after jumping a few steps, the planks began to break, and the dead thing fell directly into the abyss. Zombies have no intelligence, they only smell people's anger and instinctively hunt and kill, watching the dead things fall down one by one, Lin Bing, the girl, clapped her hands and said happily: "These stinky things, they deserve to fall." ”
Yan Siming looked at the zombie opposite, his body trembled, and he said with three points of fear: "Hurry up and find a way to get out." ”
I gathered around the stone pillars and looked closely, each of which was carved with a spirit boy holding evil spirits. It is huge, taking up almost the entire stone pillar. The spirit boy looked solemn, his eyes were closed, his teeth were grinning, and he looked very realistic. The dead ghosts in their hands were all like withered trees and exuding a frightened expression, like a prisoner about to be judged. There is also a mantra written under the stone pillar, which looks like Sanskrit, and when you look at them one by one, you can see that this is true for each of the eighteen stone pillars. Since I couldn't read Sanskrit, I didn't know what these mantras meant.
After turning around the pillar, I suddenly found that the spirit boy who had closed his eyes didn't know when he opened his eyes and was glaring at us. This phenomenon frightened everyone. I beckoned the crowd to stand back. After their eyes turned back and forth on us a few times, they finally stared at Fang Lanlan in unison.
Fang Lanlan suddenly fell to the ground at this time, Yan Siming hurriedly hugged her, I checked this girl's body and found that her soul was gone. Looking at the pillar again, the dead ghost that the spirit boy was originally carrying in his hand had turned into a female ghost with long hair and fluttering, and her face was exactly the same as Fang Lanlan's.
Fang Lanlan's soul was captured by these guys!
Yan Siming and Lin Bing also noticed the changes on the stone pillar, and asked me with three points of fear and seven points of doubt: "What's going on?" ”
I thought about it for a while, since we got on the stone platform, it seems that only Fang Lanlan has touched the stone pillar alone, could it be that touching the stone pillar awakened the spirit child and causing the soul to be taken away?
Lan Lan's soul above the stone pillar began to become restless, and her expression changed from fear to crying. Immediately, thousands of grimaces appeared on the entire stone pillar, and each of them let out a terrible scream. We were so frightened that our legs felt weak. Have you ever seen the scene of ten thousand ghosts crying together? Just one word, horror!
Yan Siming said to me with a crying voice: "Save Lanlan." ”
I said in my heart that it was not that I didn't want to save it, but that I didn't know how to save it at all.
Putting Lin Bing down from his back, he took out eighteen incense sticks from his bag, inserted one in front of each stone pillar, knelt on the ground, and read in his mouth: "We have unintentionally intruded and disturbed your purity, please raise your noble hands." After the boy goes out, on the fifteenth day of the first month of each year, he will definitely use the best incense to worship all the great immortals. ”
After saying that, he pinched and recited the mantra, and the incense suddenly burned. I was happy, because the incense sticks lit showed that they accepted my apology, but after three seconds, the incense heads went out again.
I muttered what's going on? Didn't you soak in water before and wet the incense bunch? I went up and checked again, and found that it was very dry, not wet at all. I recited the mantra again, and it still didn't ignite after repeating it several times. took out a lighter from his pocket again, and finally lit it, and in the next second, eighteen incense sticks broke at the waist.