Chapter 35: The Human-Faced Lion Demon
At that moment, I felt like I was getting my adrenaline pumping and I had completely lost my mind.
Liu drunkard, Chen Laosan, Qiangzi...... They all smiled at me and surrounded me, I wanted to run, but my feet seemed to have roots......
"Little evil! Little evil! "In a trance, I seemed to hear someone shouting my name, and then I heard it as if no one was shouting, and I couldn't care so much, I almost raised my arms like a conditional launch, trying to make a final resistance.
Just as I picked up my arm, I suddenly felt a great force grab my wrist, and at the same time the voice of my name was higher, and the accompanying pain in my wrist changed the scene in front of me in an instant.
Well? I blinked, and I saw that Captain Zhang and Uncle Wang had almost put their faces on mine, and the police behind them looked at me like stupid people.
At this time, as soon as I looked down, I saw Lao Huang and Mrs. Mingyue holding one of my wrists.
"Just now...... I was ...... a little confused.
"It was all an illusion just now—did you look at the eyes of the stone lion?" Lao Huang said and let go of my hand.
"I see you and Shitai are watching, so ......"
"Don't look him in the eye, there's something wrong with this statue." Mingyue Master said too sharply.
"What the hell is this? So wicked! I took a few steps back and stood beside Uncle Wang.
"This should be called 'human-faced lion demon', which is a witch god worshipped by a religion popular in some parts of the north during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period." Lao Huang said, gesturing us to stay away from it.
Human-faced lion demon? As soon as I heard this name, I instantly thought of the Golden Lion King, could it be that Jin Yong also knew that this thing existed when he wrote "Heaven and Dragon Slayer"?
Lao Huang said that this was a very evil religion, which prevailed in the Chu State during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and gradually disappeared with the unification of the Six Kingdoms by Qin Shi Huang. There is also a rumor that the religion has not disappeared, but that its adherents have been converted from commoners to authorities, because its core witchcraft is to prolong people's lives – and even immortality.
Qin Shi Huang is said to be one of the followers, and his so-called book burning pit Confucianism is the book and the person who eliminated the folk record of this witchcraft.
Anyone who knows a little bit of historical knowledge should know that whether it is the "Four Books and Five Classics" or the classics of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, they have basically been preserved, but almost all those books on religion have been destroyed.
But don't forget, before the Qin Dynasty, witchcraft was prevalent, and there were so many books about witchcraft, why do we hardly see one today?
Qin Shi Huang has been devoting his life to the study of the art of immortality, in fact, he is practicing this kind of witchcraft, and he has also gone to the people many times under the banner of micro-service private visits to find a few things necessary for cultivating immortality, but unfortunately he did not find it until he died.
Qin Shi Huang was the first emperor in the history of our country to die in a foreign land, and when he was fifty years old, he died suddenly while inspecting the Shandong Peninsula. Historians and Daomen insiders have analyzed this matter.
The so-called "accidental death during inspection" is actually untenable.
Who is it, the world is unified, and it is the year of knowing the destiny of heaven, who will put the brocade clothes and jade food, and give up the six palaces and fandel to run around? The only explanation is that there must be something more appealing to him than good food and beautiful women, and the conclusion of the Taoist is that he is seeking eternal life.
There is also strong evidence that Qin Shi Huang had a soft spot for the Shandong Peninsula, whether it was sending Xu Fu to take five hundred childhood virgins from Penglai in Shandong to the sea, or going to the Shandong Peninsula before his death, which proves that there is something he is looking for.
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After listening to Lao Huang's "popularization of historical knowledge", I was a little blindsided:
"Old Uncle Huang, you ...... Do you have anything to do with the stone statue? ”
"Of course there is!" The 'Human-Faced Lion Demon' is the god that is worshiped by that kind of religion, so it can be said that this underground space and the stone statue existed long before Qin Shi Huang. ”
I still didn't understand, so I watched him and didn't speak.
"Don't forget, this is Shandong! Didn't you think that Qin Shi Huang had gone through a lot of hardships to find a place to be here? ”
I thought about it for a while, and suddenly it dawned on me that the letter left by my grandmother had mentioned that this village and the people in the village were not simple, and every ten years there would be Taoist priests and other people, could it be that Qin Shi Huang had the same purpose as them?
While listening to Lao Huang's narration, the group continued to walk forward.
Almost when Lao Huang finished speaking, I heard the sound of "coo-coo" all around, as if something was screaming.
At first I thought I was having auditory hallucinations again.
After walking a few more steps, suddenly Master Mingyue, who was walking in the front, stretched out her hand and made a "stop" gesture.
Everyone stopped almost at the same time, standing like a sculpture and looking at Mrs. Mingyue, when there were a few more sounds of "coo-coo" around them.
This time it wasn't just me, the voice was very harsh and terrifying in this underground cavern, and everyone should have heard it.
"Turn off the lights!"
Master Mingyue's voice was low and urgent.
All of a sudden, it was pitch black all around us, so dark that we couldn't even see our outstretched hand. But I subconsciously looked around, wanting to hear where the sound came from.
This sight scared me all over.
I saw countless small red and blue bright spots about a hundred meters away from us, some of which flickered from time to time.
What is it? I muttered to myself, and suddenly my scalp was numb, and I suddenly thought of the first time I saw the red monkey in the dark room last night...... Could it be that this is something with eyes?
I've been afraid of bugs since I was a child, and when I broke out in a cold sweat, I felt itchy all over my body, as if something was squirming in my clothes! Suddenly, two meters in front of me, a green point of light appeared, and at the same time, the voice of Master Mingyue came.
"Everyone looked at the night pearl in my hand and took the hand of the nearest person...... It's cold light, and cold-blooded animals can't see it......" Mingyue Shitai's voice was very low, and I could barely understand it.
I reached out and grabbed it a few times, and soon both of my hands were holding the hand of the person next to me.
To my surprise, the hand I was holding in my left hand was so cold! Why is there no temperature at all...... The other hand I was holding was about the same temperature as mine...... As I recalled, the person on my left hand side – that is, behind me – was a policeman, and on the right hand side was Captain Zhang.
Could it be that the police are too nervous? In fact, I was also nervous, and Captain Zhang on the right hand side also gently tapped me with his fingers a few times, as if to remind me not to push too hard.
"Hold it all? Is there anything you haven't held? Master Mingyue asked in a low voice.
After waiting for more than ten seconds, there was still no reply.