Chapter 256: Prajna (18)
Prajna Gate has never encountered this kind of thing, so he sent people to guard the house with children, but this is not a way, there are too many people with children, and there are only a few people in Pranyamen, and they can't be busy at all. Later, Jiang Li's master opened the altar, hoping to recover those souls, but he found that the souls of those children had disappeared, and everyone speculated that the evil of abducting children was to use the children's souls to cultivate.
The turning point came one night, when another child went missing, but this time it was clearly seen by a butcher who woke up at night, and the butcher saw a masked man walking in front of him, with a long thing in his hand, followed by five or six children, shaking his head and following him.
The butcher was so frightened that he almost screamed, and he recognized the mask, which was the mask worn by the doll in his hand on the day Pranya returned from Rong Village.
After this matter was revealed, everyone was angry, and rushed to the Prajna Gate to find an explanation, Jiang Li's master was helpless, and took people to find Praruo, and when everyone arrived at Prajna's room, they found that his room was full of dolls, large and small, and those dolls were different from the usual puppet shows, one by one, lifelike, and the size was almost the same as that of a living person. The most terrifying thing is that those dolls look exactly the same as those missing children. Many people have found dolls corresponding to their children in it.
Originally, everyone was just suspicious, but now that the evidence is conclusive, everyone can't sit still. Especially those parents who have lost their children, they believe that Prajna is the one who stole the soul of the child.
When you go to the Prajna room, the Prajna is not in the room. At that time, it was proposed that the dolls should be burned with a fire, and perhaps in this way, the souls of the children would return. Although some people thought it was inappropriate, and Jiang Li's master was not present, the remaining people in the Praruomen couldn't hold back the anger of the masses, so they really burned all the dolls with a fire.
Speaking of this, Wang Daochang paused, he was also present at the time, following behind his father, peeking at the dolls in the house, he had a strange feeling, those dolls gave him a very familiar feeling. He heard his father shouting in the crowd: "You can't burn, you can't burn." Unfortunately, no one heard his insignificant voice at the time.
"Dao Chief? Dao Chief? What happened to you? ”
Wang Daochang suddenly came back to his senses and found that everyone was looking at him with strange eyes, he smiled awkwardly and continued: "I'm fine, even I was at the scene at the time... ”
"You're there too? Did you notice anything unusual at that time? Mao Daxin asked in surprise.
"I was only a few years old at the time, and I was taken by my dad to see the excitement if I could find anything unusual. Ever since the child went missing, my dad wanted to tie me to his trouser belt wherever he went. Wang Daochang pretended to be relaxed.
"And then?" Jiang Qiao couldn't help but start urging again.
"Later... Alas, no one listened to my dad at that time, and insisted on burning those ominous dolls. They hoped that this would bring back the children's spirits, but they did not expect to cause an even greater tragedy.
Everyone gathered all the dolls by the river, lit a fire, and when the fire was lit, everyone knew that something was wrong. The flames burst into the sky, and the center of the flame was a long green color. What scares everyone the most is that those dolls seem to have life, their facial features suddenly become painful and distorted, as if they can really feel the pain of the fire, and the terrible screams come out of the mouths of the dolls, and even some dolls staggered to their feet, holding their half-burnt arms and struggling to rush towards the crowd, their bodies seem to melt, and the charred black substance slowly flows down from their bodies.
The fire became more and more vigorous, billowing black smoke rushed to the sky, it seemed to dye the sky black, and the air began to be filled with a strange burnt smell, just like the usual smell of barbecue, everyone began to realize something, especially the parents of the children were frightened, and wanted to extinguish the fire, but it was still too late, and they could only watch the cute dolls in the fire turn into a lumpy object with melted charred black.
Many people present couldn't help but vomit.
At this moment, Jiang Li's master arrived. Seeing this scene, he couldn't help beating his chest and sighing. Later, I learned that in fact, since Prajna came back from the underworld, Jiang Li's master felt that something was wrong with him and had been secretly observing. Although he didn't know why Prajna had taken the souls of these children into custody, he was confident that he would be able to save them.
Unexpectedly, he was kindly done by these people, and everything was burned with a fire.
When the parents returned home, they found that their children had turned into powder and disappeared. Many families are only children, and their grandparents are almost blind from crying.
The crowd witnessed such a strange change, and their emotions became even more excited, not listening to Master Jiang Li's persuasion, they must find a blood debt to pay for it, and there are many capable people, Taoist real people have also joined this mighty crusade team.
For a while, everyone was murderous, especially the parents, who wanted to go out on the street every day without putting a knife on their trouser belts, and the whole city was shrouded in a tense atmosphere.
At first, it was the homeless man on the street who was wrong, and suddenly one day he was talking nonsense, and when he met people everywhere, he said that he saw an identical self, and then there were those who set fire to the dolls, and someone saw two identical people appear at the same time in the factory on the street, and everyone caught two identical people together, and they couldn't tell the real from the fake, and finally it was Jiang Li's master that one of them turned into a doll more than one meter tall.
I don't know when and where, rumors began to fly all over the world, and everywhere spread that Prajna had returned, and that he would make an identical doll to take the place of the living.
The rumors became more and more crazy, and everyone began to spread that they wanted to replace all living people with dolls and rule the world. Everyone began to become very strange, no longer trusting the people around them, and everyone suspected that the closest people around them were puppets of Prajna.
Wang Daochang's father didn't let Wang Daochang go out, and he himself discussed countermeasures with other fellow Daoists all day long, and everyone had a premonition of the seriousness of the situation, and they all geared up to fight to the death with Prajna. Jiang Li's master was worried, and he sensitively sensed that everyone was in a strange mood. But no one was listening to him anymore.
The Great War is on the verge of breaking out.
Wang Dao remembered that the sky was dyed bright red with blood that day, and he stood on the high white tower, wearing that strange mask, looking down coldly on all beings, and the corners of his white clothes rustled in the wind, as if he could ride the wind at any time.
At that moment, Wang Daochang, who was hiding behind his father and probing his brain, couldn't tell the difference, was it a human, a demon, or a god standing there?