Stand-in dolls, known as "dai guo", have similarities with ordinary tomb figurines, but they have their own sizes. The size of ordinary tomb figurines is the same as that of ordinary people, and the stand-in puppet depends on the financial resources of the person who needs to "replace", the family is well-off, and the size of the puppet is similar to his own, and he can even carve the appearance of the original owner, and those who have no money can only use simple dolls.

The most important thing is that this kind of stand-in puppet must be practiced by a special person, that is, a religious person, in order to achieve the purpose of being received on behalf of people in the underworld.

Large families also use lead or precious metals to make dolls.

"The so-called lead man, gold and jade for the dead to explain, the living to remove the sin." Tang Qianlin pointed to the Manchu characters on it and said, "The words on it are translated into Chinese characters - to remove the suffering of the living and to relieve the dead." ”

When Jinguth heard this, he said something that surprised Tang Qianlin and Takahashi Jiro: "It stands to reason that Chinese stand-in dolls should not use more lead and tin?" ”

When Tang Qianlin heard this, he subconsciously glanced at Jiro Takahashi, and deliberately said: "A North Korean killer knows so clearly." ”

Jinguth smiled slightly: "I only hear people talk about it occasionally. ”

Tang Qianlin said: "Indeed, there are many stand-in dolls made of lead, because lead plays an important role in Taoist rituals and symbolic systems. Lead is one of the most basic materials for Taoist cultivation of inner and outer pills, and Taoist cultivators in the past had to find real lead and real mercury that could interact with and convert them, and combine them with other substances to refine the so-called golden pill, that is, the elixir, but usually people die if they eat it, these things are poisonous. ”

Regardless of the religion or the heretic, lead is the representative of yin, corresponding to water, the white tiger and the west, while mercury, that is, mercury, represents the fire, the green dragon and the east. In other words, in their view, lead has the ability to sense yellow springs and represent the dead.

Tang Qianlin said: "But the materials of the stand-in dolls are not limited to lead and tin, including pine, cypress, peach and other types of wood, these materials actually have the same place as lead, one is the relationship with the tomb and the underworld, and the other is whether spells can affect it. ”

Jiro Takahashi shook his head: "Impact? ”

Tang Qianlin nodded and said, "Yes, during the Western Han Dynasty, the Chinese believed that ghosts and monsters could live in the thick shade of pines and cypresses, and the so-called cypress wood was the phase, the qi of heaven and earth, and the righteousness of ten thousand years, the spirit division called the body of gold and wood, and the simplicity of the noble generation of the earth. Therefore, the coffin of the ancients, cypress for it, exempt from the battle of three coats. ”

Jinguth asked, "What is the Battle of Santu?" ”

"That is, fire, knife and blood." Tang Qianlin looked at Jin Gu Si and said, "The corresponding ones are the Hell Dao, the Hungry Ghost Dao, and the Animal Dao. ”

Jiro Takahashi nodded: "I see." ”

Above the roof opening, Cigarette Butt sat listening with interest, with a weird smile on his face, and Kyung-chun yawned and was about to fall asleep.

Tang Qianlin continued: "Probably in the Tang Dynasty, a kind of statue called 'Shi Zhen' appeared, and Shi Zhen means stone real body. But the function of this kind of stand-in puppet is to prolong life, first build a living wall, that is, the meaning of the tomb of the living, and then put it into Shi Zhen, imagining that it can deceive those messengers of the underworld, so that Shi Zhen's owner can prolong his life until the day Shi Zhen is discovered. ”

Jinguth raised the puppet in his hand: "What about this?" What is it? ”

"If I'm not mistaken...... Tang Qianlin tore off the rune paper wrapped around the puppet's body, cut the edge of the puppet's body with the hidden phoenix blade, and then opened the puppet, "These are small human coffins. ”

Jinguth and Takahashi Jiro were stunned, took out other dolls from the box, tore off the talisman paper, and opened the puppets in the same way as Tang Qianlin.

Jiro Takahashi looked at the open puppet in his hand: "So, does this place really have anything to do with shamanism?" ”

Tang Qianlin looked around and said, "Yes, it is 100% related, otherwise this kind of thing would not have appeared." In fact, it is speculated from the age, many things are not logical at all, for example, the legend is that there is this Qinglong Temple in the late Ming Dynasty, and at that time, Liaodong has been broken by the Houjin army, if I remember correctly, it was to break through Fengtian and Liaoyang in one fell swoop, that is, the surrounding areas here, and at that time, it was too strange to build a temple here, so I speculate that the Qinglong Temple was a little earlier, it should be in the heyday of the Ming Dynasty, that is, during the Yongle period, when Zhu Di was the emperor. ”

Jinguss asked, "This temple was originally Taoist and later became Buddhism, but there is something shamanic in it, what does this mean?" ”

Tang Qianlin shook his head: "I don't know if I just look at these things, we have to continue to check." ”

Jiro Takahashi nodded: "Can you also find a way to save us?" ”

Tang Qianlin still shook his head: "I don't know, I'm not sure, let me repeat it, I don't understand why my senior brother would tell you like that." ”

In fact, Tang Qianlin already understood in his heart that the reason why Chu Lekang wanted to tell Takahashi Jiro that only he could save everyone in this military station was to make Takahashi Jiro, the core person of the military station, change from Tang Qianlin's stumbling block to a stepping stone.

Of course, Tang Qianlin couldn't say it.

Just as Tang Qianlin turned around to walk out, the cigarette butt sitting in the opening of the roof suddenly saw something flash from behind Tang Qianlin.

"What's that?" The cigarette butt traced the thing with a flashlight.

Takahashi Jiro and Jin Gusi, who were standing behind Tang Qianlin, also clearly saw that something flashed by.

Tang Qianlin immediately turned around: "Where is it?" ”

Takahashi Jiro and Jinguth took a flashlight and shone it to the east corner of the room, and Takahashi Jiro said, "There it is." ”

Tang Qianlin slowly stepped forward and said, "You can just stand on the left and right, and I'll go up alone." ”

Both Gingus and Jiro Takahashi pulled out their guns, and the butt of the cigarette sitting above the roof also pulled out the gun and aimed it at the corner, placing their fingers lightly on the trigger.

Tang Qianlin grabbed the mechanism of the phoenix blade hidden on his wrist, moved towards the corner step by step, reached out and slowly lifted the broken chair on the corner, and the moment it was opened, a shadow quickly jumped out between his feet.

"There!" Cigarette butt above the road.

"Don't shoot!" Tang Qianlin subconsciously shouted, "See what it is!" ”

Jiro Takahashi, who was about to shoot, took his finger off the trigger and stared at the thing that jumped to the other corner, there was nothing to cover the outside of the west corner, so they could all see the strange thing under the flashlight.

"What's that?" Jinguth frowned, "Smoke? ”

Jiro Takahashi frowned as the smoke-like mass wriggled in the corner.

Tang Qianlin slowly stepped forward, squatted down and looked at the thing carefully, the thing was transparent, like a cloud of smoke, but it would flicker under the light.

Suddenly, Jiro Takahashi remembered something: "We saw this kind of thing last time we went into the cave, and it was everywhere in the air, and I thought it was just wisps of green smoke." ”

"Like smoke, but it shouldn't be smoke." Tang Qianlin tentatively approached the thing, "But this thing must have life, because inanimate things will not hide from us." ”

"That's a ghost lantern!" Qingquan on the roof suddenly interjected.

As soon as he finished speaking, the cigarette butt also said: "Yes, it looks like a legendary ghost lantern." ”

Jingus, Tang Qianlin, and Takahashi Jiro looked up at the roof almost at the same time.

Tang Qianlin glanced at the unknown thing that was still wriggling in the corner, and asked, "What is the ghost lantern?" Ghost fire? ”

Qingquan hurriedly said: "No, no, no, it's not a ghost fire, it's another thing, this thing won't be active near the cemetery, but in the past, hunters often saw this thing in the mountains." ”

Cigarette butt continued: "Yes, there is a legend that the lantern carried by black and white impermanence is transformed into a monster, as long as this thing appears somewhere, where it will die, a ghost lantern means that a person will die." ”

Qingquan subconsciously looked around, and then used a flashlight to shine on the other corners of the room: "According to what you say, some of us will die?" ”

Cigarette butt raised his eyes and looked at him: "It's just folklore, big brother, you won't be so cowardly, right?" ”

Tang Qianlin took another step forward, walked to the thing and squatted down, looked at it carefully, and then turned off the flashlight in his hand, and said at the same time: "You also turn off the flashlight." ”

The rest of the people immediately did the same, and when the flashlight disappeared, the thing seemed to suddenly come to its senses, and began to spin in place, and slowly turned higher and higher, leaving a faint wisp of green smoke in the air.

Jiro Takahashi raised his hand and said, "The last time we saw it, it was like this. ”

Tang Qianlin asked, "Is it harmful?" ”

Jiro Takahashi shook his head: "I said, we were washed away by a puff of gas, and we don't know anything else." ”

As soon as Jiro Takahashi finished speaking, the ghost lantern, which was still spinning, suddenly stopped, suspended in the air, and turned into a spherical shape.

When Tang Qianlin was wondering, the cave shook again, and at the moment of the vibration, the ghost lantern seemed to be waiting for some signal, and jumped out of the door directly.

Tang Qianlin subconsciously chased sideways towards the door, and as soon as he reached the door, a powerful air flow sprayed directly from the bottom of the cave, and the huge force directly overturned Tang Qianlin to the ground.

The sudden wave of air shook the whole house and whined, Qingquan on the roof did not stand firm and fell directly, and the cigarette butt raised his hand to grab him, but only pulled the corner of his clothes.

"Give it to me!" The cigarette butt shouted Qingquan's voice changed, "Hurry up!" ”

The rushing waves of air rushed back and forth between the mountain walls, and turned into an invisible big hand that slapped on Qingquan's body, and then, Qingquan felt as if something was pulling at his feet.

"Something is tugging at my feet!" While Qingquan finished shouting this, he stretched out his hand to the cigarette butt, and the cigarette butt quickly released the corner of his clothes to grab Qingquan, but the moment the two fingers were about to touch, Qingquan fell.

The moment Qingquan fell, Tang Qianlin just got up from the ground, and when he raised his eyes, he saw Qingquan falling directly from the door.

"Qingquan!" Tang Qianlin flew out and threw the rope at the same time, "Catch it!" ”