Chapter 59: The Shawshank Redemption
I stared at him, "You really have a purpose in renting this house. Master Ma was right. ”
Li Damin looked at me and sighed: "Push me in." ”
I pushed my wheelchair into the room, and Li Damin motioned for me to go to the room on the east side. It can be used as a bathhouse, and the area is very large. You can see that the east room used to be used as the main bath, and there is a bath in the center of the large room that has not been cleaned. The public bathhouse, which used to be bustling and full of people, is now empty, full of messes, and the lighting is very poor, and the shadows of Li Damin and I are reflected on the exposed concrete wall, which looks very gloomy.
Seeing that the collapsed pit was in the corner of this room, I pushed Li Damin over. The pit was covered with thick planks of cement, only now they were broken and the edges were uneven, revealing the Hessian hole below. It is assumed that after this pit appeared, someone covered it tightly, but I don't know what it was, the wooden planks broke, the cement collapsed, and it was exposed again.
Li Damin said quietly: "When the jar was dug out, it was not empty, there were things inside. ”
"What?" I was a little surprised.
Li Damin said lightly: "Dead man." There were six dried corpses in total, which had weathered black. When they were found, they were wrapped in cinnabar-soaked cloth towels all over their bodies, and their heads were covered with talismans, stiff but not rotten. ”
I looked at the big black pit and my heart raced: "What's going on?" ”
"Because the scene was too horrifying," Li Damin said, "all the people present asked to be sealed, and the body was also taken away by the relevant departments." I haven't seen the real thing, even the photos of the vat in the mobile phone were taken with a lot of relationships. According to my common sense, this is a very ancient sect ritual used to seal the ghost sect. If this jar is from the Song Dynasty, then this ritual can also be traced back to the Song Dynasty. The weirdest thing, do you know what the Tao is? ”
I was already stunned and quickly asked, "What?" ”
"The six bodies were all male, and all of them were ...... Bareheaded. ”
"What does that mean?" I asked.
Li Damin said: "I don't know what to do. It is possible that the people who dedicate themselves in this ritual need to be men with shaved heads, and there is also a possibility that these people who are dedicated are monks. ”
I let out an "oh", and suddenly remembered something, but I couldn't grasp the substance. Just thinking about it, Li Damin said: "After this jar was unearthed, the Cultural Relics Bureau wanted to carry out a large-scale excavation, but in the end it did not happen. There are two reasons, one is that I can't negotiate with the owner of the bathhouse and the landlord's brother, after all, this is a place where people do business, and if you want to open it all, you must be able to come up with compensation. But our cultural relics bureau here is Qingshui Yamen, and the leaders above are pulling off and kicking football, and this matter will come and go. Another reason is," Li Damin said in a wheelchair to the bath: "The leader of the Cultural Relics Bureau overheard the persuasion of a high-ranking person, saying that the evil aura here is too heavy, and there is a mysterious formation, once it is destroyed, the harm will be endless." The leader, trying to be promoted to an auspicious position, was a group of harmony, and he snuffed out this matter in the seedlings. ”
I smiled, "So you're here." ”
Li Damin turned his wheelchair and glared at me: "Do you think I'm the same as that Ma Danlong, I'm picking up cheap?" He said quietly: "Since this tank was dug out, strange things have happened frequently in the bathhouse, and people have died in the end. ”
He briefly talked about it, there were three strange things in the bathhouse in a row, the most of which led to the closure of business and bankruptcy, and the boss is still caught in a lawsuit.
Friends who have been to the public bathhouse know that only the men's bathhouse has a bath, but the women's bathhouse does not. What happens depends on the specific physiological structure of women, so I won't discuss it here. The first strange thing happened in the bath of the men's bathhouse.
Li Damin couldn't bend down, his lumbar spine was still not good, so I asked me to pick up a piece of wood from the ground. He held the wood and pointed to the bath that had been stripped down to the frame.
That day, several old men were bathing in the bath, and when they were soaking very comfortably, someone suddenly saw a red color slowly rising from the bottom of the pool. At first, everyone didn't pay attention, and they were dizzy from steaming, and they thought they were dazzled. It wasn't until the red slowly floated on the water that I could see it clearly.
This piece of red is actually a big red clothes, wrapped in the clothes is a female corpse that has been blistered like a fat pig, the whole body is white, the hair is scattered, and the eyes are motionless and staring at an old man. The old man was so frightened that he ran out of the water bare-chested, and because of the slippery underground, he fell to the ground and broke his left arm.
Later, the owner of the bathhouse came, and the police also arrived at the scene, which was chaotic. Later, I found out that this was not a female corpse at all, but an inflatable doll wearing red clothes, because of the steaming and suddenness of the incident, no one would look at it at that time. It's a misunderstanding. said it was a misunderstanding, but after all, it was the responsibility of your bathhouse, which caused people to be frightened and fractured, no way, the boss took out a lot of compensation.
Although this matter has passed, I can't think about it deeply, the completely closed bath, and there is no leakage underneath, how can such a thing come out of the water for no reason, and I panic when I think about it. When the business closed for the night, the boss took someone to inspect the bath very carefully, and knocked around the perimeter, but I really couldn't understand where the thing came from.
Since this incident, there have been rumors that this place is haunted.
What really confirmed the rumors of haunting was what happened to the cleaning aunt of the women's bathhouse. That night, there were not many people in the bathhouse, and she was cleaning up, wiping the floor with a mop, when she felt a dark shadow on the ground, and she looked up sharply, and then screamed. It is said that many residents in the surrounding area heard the terrible screams of women that night, and they were extremely creepy.
Because she saw a woman hanging herself from the ceiling of the bathhouse.
In order to preserve the heat, the ceiling of the bathhouse is designed to be relatively high, and only a small skylight is opened at the highest place to be a ventilation duct. The fan blades in the ventilation ducts were still turning, and a dark shadow flashed on the hanged man's body, revealing an indescribable mysterious atmosphere. But when everyone came in, they didn't find any hanged people, and it was completely this aunt who had visual hallucinations.
The aunt said that she was going to resign from everything, and her courage was broken. The boss was also anxious, so he told her to stay and continue to work, and also increased her salary. In these years, it is not easy for women in their fifties to find a job, so they have to stay after being wronged.
A week later, the boss opened the door in the morning to do business, and found the aunt hanging in the women's bathhouse. The death was exactly the same as the one she had described when she saw the hanged man.
This is a life lawsuit, and it's troublesome. My aunt has a son who is studying in college, and the tuition fee has not yet been settled, and the old man is watching the gate in the factory, and he can't even eat enough for a few hundred yuan a month. Family members come to make trouble every day with wreaths, and after several lawsuits, the boss almost compensated all the savings over the years, and the last one was alone, and he closed the door and left.
I was terrified: "You mean there's been a death here?" ”
Li Damin's tone was very flat: "It's not the men's bathroom, it's the women's bathroom in the west." If you're interested, I'll show you there in a moment. ”
"What did that auntie hang herself for?" I asked.
"I don't know what to do. The forensic examination determined that it was a suicide, but the family members insisted that it was he who killed him, not that he killed him. Also, if you have a husband and a son, why would you commit suicide for no reason? There's only one possibility. Li Damin said.
"What?"
"Ghost top." Li Damin laughed: "Possessed by a hanged ghost." ”
He said it like a joke, but my expression was serious, because I was reminded of Appleton's suicide. The ghost gate closes the yin qi and leaks out, the evil qi invades the body, and it is reasonable to commit suicide for no reason.
Li Damin said: "I have no other purpose in taking this place, I just want to reseal the ghost gate with my own strength." Lao Liu, don't forget that I once practiced the art of ghost cultivation and have the ability to do something for the common people. If left unchecked, the entire city could become a ghost town. ”
I swallowed: "Is it as exaggerated as you say?" ”
Li Damin rowed his wheelchair and turned to the door: "I came to you just to ask you to help." The only person I can trust now is you. ”
"Actually, you can join forces with Ma Danlong......"
Li Damin shook his head: "Ma Danlong has a prejudice against me, and this person is not a good thing." He has approached me several times, talked to me, and asked me about my experience in painting. You should be careful of him in the future, this man is a thief and a ghost. ”
"But what can I do?"
Li Damin pointed his finger outside: "Do you know the background of the developer of the Garden Community?" ”
"I don't know what to do." I shook my head.
He said: "After the land was ripped off, it turned out that the real estate company suddenly suffered an economic blow and went bankrupt, and the assets were fully taken over by a large Taiwanese group. This group is now responsible for the real estate renovation project of the garden community. These Taiwanese, as soon as I came, I knew that something was wrong and that the wolf was ambitious. They did not build at all, but spent almost half a year digging only one deep well. ”
I listened mysteriously: "What are you doing digging wells?" ”
Li Damin looked at me: "They want to open a road to the Ghost Gate!" ”
Hearing him say this, my scalp exploded: "**, why are they doing this?" ”
Li Damin shook his head: "I don't know what to do." Certainly not a good thing! So we have to enter the ghost gate before they are sealed first! Lao Liu. He paddled up to me in a wheelchair and said, "Please!" ”
"I'm a ** silk, what can I do?" I'm baffled.
Li Damin rowed his wheelchair to a corner, picked up a shovel leaning against the wall, and then rowed to me again, and handed me the shovel like handing over a holy relic: "Let's two brothers work together to dig tunnels together!" ”
“**!” I almost jumped: "You're not kidding, are you?" "My chrysanthemums are all cold, digging tunnels to enter the ghost gate, what does Li Damin think in his head, either it is an unbelievable big project if nothing happens. He really deserves to be brothers with Li Yang, these two people were born in troubled times, and it is estimated that they will be emperors now, and they are definitely heroes.
I hurriedly waved my hand: "Damin, I said something unpleasant, you are a waste person and can't help." And I'm just alone, holding a shovel, digging one shovel after another, how long do I have to dig? You really think I'm a Shawshank. Taiwanese are excavators and pile drivers, and my brother is capable of modern technology? ”
Li Damin laughed, and his face showed a strange and gloomy ghostly aura: "I don't know what to do, the portal passages of the Ghost Gate Pass are all ready-made, and the people of the Song Dynasty have already done it for you, but the vicissitudes of time have passed, and some silt has been blocked inside, as long as it is cleaned up a little, it will be over." We're definitely faster than them! ”
He took out a flashlight from his bosom and handed it to me: "Take it, you can go down and observe it now." ”
I looked back at the big hole in Hesse, and my legs and stomach were spinning.