Chapter 37: The Great Banyan Tree
Early the next morning, it was still dark.
After Shen Jiangtao got up, he asked Yu Xu's mother for a few embroidery needles and a few chopsticks.
Then, he broke a section of the front of the chopsticks, clamped an embroidery needle, and then tied it firmly with a rope, broke a cross-shaped crack in the back, and sandwiched two pieces of chicken feathers horizontally and vertically, and a simple and sharp dart was ready.
Divide the darts to Yu Xu and others, two for each person; Then Shen Jiangtao took the three of them to quietly touch the woods in the northwest of Zhangjia Village.
As soon as I hid after arriving, I saw a black sedan driving very slowly, at this time the light was still relatively dim, and I could only barely see the road clearly, but the sedan did not have driving lights, obviously afraid that the people in Zhangjia Village would find out.
The sedan drove into a sheltered spot in the woods and stopped, two men got out of the car and opened the trunk, one grabbed a thick garment and put it on the other.
The man in the quilt muttered, "This is a tiring errand." ”
The man who helped him put on his clothes comforted: "It's the last year, the boss said, work harder, wait for the dead man to bury it, and the matter will be over." ”
"I said the same thing last year, the last year and the last year, and the last year every year!" The man in thick clothes spat fiercely on the ground: "I won't do anything after I finish this year, I have a bad conscience!" ”
"Come on, you said last year that you wouldn't do it, and you didn't rush to get it later." The person who helped with the clothes was also full of resentment and said: "You can be content, work for five days and get a year's salary, I want to do this kind of work!" Your conscience hurts, how can your conscience not hurt when you collect money......"
"Lots of nonsense." The man who had put on the thick clothes took two thin pieces of things, and helped the one to pull a piece of leather pipe and connect it to the thick clothes.
"Whew... The sound of inflating sounded, and I saw that the thick clothes on the man's body gradually bulged, and at the same time, I saw him slowly floating in the air.
Seeing this, Shen Jiangtao understood the reason why this person could be suspended in the air, and the clothes he was wearing must have been filled with hydrogen and other gases.
After inflating, the man grabbed a huge copper bell in his hand, stepped on two thin sticks with both feet, and walked two or three meters in one step towards Zhangjia Village.
At the same time, the strange ghost bell rang.
After watching the whole process, Miao Li and Zhang Min's trembling bodies also stabilized, and they were not so scared after witnessing that the evil ghost was disguised as a human.
Seeing that the "evil ghost" went to Zhangjia Village, Yu Xu dragged Shen Jiangtao and leaned into his ear and asked: "Let's follow up quickly and expose him as soon as possible!" ”
Shen Jiangtao shook his head, grabbed Yu Xu, and signaled him not to worry.
The man who helped with the suit of clothes, after seeing that the person pretending to be a "demon" had left smoothly, made a phone call: "Boss, Master Wang has entered the village...... Be! …… Be! …… Okay, I'll make it up right away! ”
After the man finished the call, he took a pack of bulging things from the car and carried them on his back, and walked in the other direction of Zhangjia Village, Shen Jiangtao pushed the two girls who were leaning against him.
I felt that my hands were very smooth and comfortable, and I didn't pay attention to it, Shen Jiangtao's hand pushed to Miao Li's chest, and she was staring at the person nervously at this time, not noticing.
"Let's go, let's follow." Shen Jiangtao lowered his voice, and the three of them followed.
The man walked all the way to a slope and stopped under a large banyan tree that could only be hugged by many people, and after looking around vigilantly, he climbed up a few steps, and then disappeared into the tree.
After a while, the man suddenly appeared in the tree again, the backpack on his back was obviously deflated, the man carefully climbed down the tree, and quickly arrived at the parking place and drove away.
After the man confirmed to leave, Shen Jiangtao and the others hurried to the big banyan tree, and looked around left and right, the big banyan tree had already died for the most part, and only a few branches were hanging with green leaves.
The man climbed up and disappeared, which was a bit strange.
"Yikes!" Yu Xu screamed when he arrived under the big banyan tree.
Shen Jiangtao, Miao Li, and Zhang Min were walking around the tree to see where to hide, and they were all startled by his sudden call.
"What's wrong?"
Yu Xu pointed to the branches with green leaves and said, "This big banyan tree has been dead for many years, how can it have leaves again?" ”
"You mean, the big banyan tree turned out to be dead?" Shen Jiangtao asked.
Yu Xu nodded: "Yes, since I have a memory, this is a dead tree." A few years ago, the village was also preparing to chop firewood. ”
"Dead wood in spring." Shen Jiangtao frowned, climbed up the tree a few times, and then shouted down: "Yu Xu, bring a flashlight!" ”
After Yu Xu came up, he saw Shen Jiangtao squatting on a tree branch, he leaned over, Shen Jiangtao grabbed a piece of bark groove with his right hand, pulled it down, and the piece of bark was pulled away, and a small hole large enough for one person to enter and exit appeared in front of him.
"Yu Xu, shine a flashlight!"
Yu Xu was surprised, turned on the flashlight and shone it into the small hole, and the two of them saw clearly that the trunk of the entire big banyan tree had been hollowed out, and something was erected in the middle.
"Let's go down and have a look." Shen Jiangtao said and jumped down carefully.
The hollowed-out part of the big banyan tree was one person tall, and Yu Xu then jumped down and shone it with a flashlight, and found that there were some strange lines carved on the inner wall of the hollowed-out trunk.
Shen Jiangtao leaned over, carefully identified it, and felt even more strange, the lines carved on it are some runes commonly used in feng shui to gather luck, this kind of runes are generally only used on tombs, how can they be so densely carved on the inner wall of a tree?
Shen Jiangtao stretched out his hand and touched it, and found that his hands were wet, and when he got closer, it was some black liquid, emitting a fishy smell, and the place under his feet was also sticky, as if there was a lot of glue gathered there.
Yu Xu stepped on something under his feet, he picked it up, it was a plastic bag, looked at it, quickly threw it away, and said in a panic: "It's a blood bag...... Blood bags in hospitals. ”
Blood bags.
Shen Jiangtao raised his hand again and looked at the things on his hand, and immediately understood that the runes carved on the inner wall of the big banyan tree had been stained with blood.
The two of them looked at the thing standing in the middle of the cavity of the big banyan tree, which was a black rectangle, large at the bottom and small at the top.
After leaning over to see it clearly, the two looked at each other and understood what it was.
It was an upright coffin.
The position where they were standing should be the bottom of the coffin, Shen Jiangtao turned around, and the whole person froze.
Yu Xu was a little surprised, and also turned around, he raised the flashlight to the other side of the coffin, and when he took a photo from top to bottom, he suddenly let out a scream of "ah".