Chapter 490: A Wonderful Search Process
Professor Shan's narration is somewhat surprising to us, for us, we always feel that this kind of 'ghost' is just an extremely rare phenomenon, and there should be very few people who know this kind of thing, and we didn't expect to encounter it, because the probability is too small, but the development of things is so incredible, everyone is surprised to find that Professor Shan's understanding of 'ghost' is not less than ours.
"So how do you know there's a crater here? How did you meet that 'ghost'? Although the cousin's tone was still gentle, he pressed step by step, and did not relax at all.
At this time, Professor Shan seemed to have completely relaxed, he sighed deeply, drank a sip of water, and his attitude was much calmer, and then he said leisurely: "Alas, this is also a long story, after listening to the shadow puppet artist's story, I am very concerned about the whereabouts of the international student's skin, and asked the shadow puppet artist carefully." ”
"Oh? What did the shadow puppet artist say? Crazy Six couldn't help but ask.
Professor Shan sighed again and said: "Alas, it's a pity, the shadow puppet artist said that he didn't want to keep that human skin, because to be honest, he was also afraid of that human skin, just to get rid of Liu Erstunned and avenge the foreign student, he had to do that, that human skin is also very strange in his opinion - it is no longer the student who studied in Germany, but in some ways, it has a lot of memories of the student who studied in Germany, and it is precisely because of this that it can kill that Liu Erstunned, because of that kind of hatred, for international students, It is the deepest memory of his life, and this memory, when he turned into human skin, still remains.
As for the human skin, what will happen next, he really doesn't know.
The skins of those beasts, even if they have life, are relatively easy to deal with for the shadow puppet artist family, and after using it for a period of time, they use fire to burn those living skins into ashes, and when they are burned, they also have to recite the 'reincarnation mantra', hoping that these beasts can be reincarnated as soon as possible, which is also a way for the shadow puppet artist family to atone for their sins, because they feel that their own practice is somewhat against the way of reincarnation.
Originally, he also wanted to burn the skin of the international student with fire, but the skin really wanted to realize this, and before the shadow puppet artist started, it slipped away, and since then it has disappeared into the mountains and never appeared again.
However, this is also the way that shadow puppet artists want the most.
I also tried to find this human skin in that big mountain, and the shadow puppet artist shook his head, he said that after decades, no one had ever seen that human skin, and if I went to find it, I am afraid it would be in vain, I think what he said is very reasonable, if I insist on looking for it, the odds are too small, I am afraid I will not be able to find it until I die.
When the shadow puppet artist saw that I was lost, he gave me a very important message, and it was through this information that I came to this mountain and saw this human skin, not only to see, but also to have a deep understanding. ”
We were all very surprised when we heard it, how did the shadow puppet artist know about this human skin of the monk? Has he ever been to our mountain? Even if you've been to this mountain, you don't necessarily know about this human skin, but what the hell is going on?
And what Professor Shan said next is far beyond our imagination.
"Since realizing the magic of that crater, the shadow puppet artist family has become very sensitive to the crater. As I said earlier, when the shadow puppet artist was young, he used to perform in various places with his father and brother, so he once went to our provincial capital to perform for a big man at that time.
But after the performance, he happened to hear that there was a big crater in our mountain, which immediately aroused the interest of the shadow puppet artist and his father and brother, but because the performance was very busy, only the shadow puppet artist had time to come to this crater to investigate.
When the shadow puppet artist saw this crater, he couldn't help but be stunned, he didn't expect this crater to be so big, many times the size of their crater.
Not only is it big, but the structure of this crater seems to be very different from theirs, and what shocked the shadow puppet artist even more was that in this crater, he found a very strange phenomenon.
In order to verify whether this crater has the same function, he caught a fox nearby, then skinned it alive and threw it into the crater.
Originally, he wanted to test whether the animal skin could survive - like the crater they had there, but the result was very unexpected: the bloody animal skin, thrown into the crater, would quickly and mysteriously disappear, as if it had melted into the crater.
What's going on?
In their crater, after peeling the hides alive, they threw them in for a day or two, and the hides would survive on their own. And the shadow puppet artist noticed that when the animal skin was thrown into this crater, again, no flies flew on the bloody animal skin, which is a striking resemblance between the two craters.
Supposedly, the hides thrown into this crater should have survived, but why did they mysteriously disappear? The shadow puppet artist lost two hides in a row, and when he came back to see them a day or two, they were all gone.
In order to find out this, the shadow puppet artist threw the third animal skin into the crater, and then hid behind a boulder next to the crater, secretly observing what happened, from dusk until midnight, just when the shadow puppet artist was drowsy, he suddenly heard a giggle, this strange laughter, suddenly scared him to sleep.
In the moonlight, a figure fell in the crater, and then picked up the animal skin, and came up again, the shadow puppet artist was deeply shocked by the strange scene in front of him, is this a ghost?
He tried to calm his feelings, and then followed closely behind the figure, and the shadow puppet artist felt that it was not so much that the figure was walking, but that it was "floating", and the body was light and fluttering, much like the legendary "lonely ghost", which made people creepy.
For some reason, the figure threw the hide off the cliff, and then walked back, and soon came to a large tree, and began to climb up, and when it was almost halfway up, suddenly a mountain wind blew, and the figure actually floated up with the wind, and climbed all the way to the treetops and hung on it.
When the figure fluttered in the wind like clothes, a thought instantly flashed through the shadow puppeteer's mind - could that figure be a human skin!
He was shocked by the thought of himself, and he couldn't help but shudder.
By daylight the next day, the shadow puppeteer had come here again, and found that the ragged thing was still hanging on it, and with his knowledge of the various leather textures, it was almost certain that the treetop should be a human skin! In other words, this human skin, like the animal skins he was familiar with, was most likely resurrected through the crater, but why did it prevent the animal skins in the crater from being "resurrected"?
Because their family has been dealing with this 'resurrected' animal skin for generations, they have studied this 'resurrected' animal skin very deeply, and I don't know whether their ancestors relied on their own accumulated experience or through the guidance of a master, in short, they have mastered the methods of controlling this kind of skin, and these methods are extremely effective.
For example, they have an ancestral incense, the 'resurrected' animal skin, and when they smell it, they are immediately attracted to it and become extremely paralyzed.
The shadow puppet artist wanted to know more about the details of the human skin, and the only way was to observe the human skin up close.
In order to lure the human skin, the shadow puppet artist concocted the same method, threw a live animal skin into the crater, and at midnight, the human skin really appeared again.
When the human skin was just ready to act, the shadow puppet artist lit the incense, although that kind of incense is extremely effective for the 'resurrected' animal skin, but for this kind of human skin, whether it has the same effect, the shadow puppet artist has no bottom in his heart.
When the human skin smelled the fragrance, it was really attracted like those animal skins, and when it came to the vicinity of the incense, it collapsed on the ground, and the shadow puppet artist mustered up his courage, lit the torch, and carefully observed the human skin.
What shocked the shadow puppet artist was that there was a complete head on the human skin, and the skin on the face had already become wrinkled, dry and rough like tree bark, and the facial features were completely distorted and deformed, but only a pair of cloudy eyes were still bone-turned, looking extremely terrifying.
When the shadow puppet artist was ready to use fire to burn the human skin, the human skin made a wailing sound, as if desperately begging for mercy, this miserable cry sounded extremely thrilling in the silent valley of the night, and the shadow puppet artist suddenly softened his heart and did not burn the human skin.
Seeing the shadow puppet artist's mercy, the human skin actually said a few words vaguely, although he couldn't hear what it was saying, but this was enough to shock the shadow puppet artist.
In the middle of the autumn night, there will be a gust of mountain wind from time to time, and the human skin, which has been paralyzed, gradually regains its vitality as the incense burns out, and then it flutters again with a strong mountain wind, and then drifts away with the wind again.
Although the shadow puppet artist still has no way of knowing the specific origin of this human skin, he can be sure that the formation process of this human skin is no different from those animal skins, and it should be stripped of only one skin, and then in that crater, this strange human skin was formed.
Who was this human skin when he was alive? How did he come to be this kind of human skin? This has become a mystery that can never be solved for shadow puppet artists.
But since then, he has known that there is such a strange human skin in this mountain, and according to his experience, if this 'resurrected' skin, if it is not artificially burned, although he does not know, how long it can live, but it is certain that it must be much longer than the human lifespan.
The shadow puppet artist saw that I was so obsessed with this kind of human skin, and he suggested that I should not look for the human skin of that international student anymore, because since the human skin disappeared, decades have passed, and it has never appeared again.
But later, I had a new teaching task, and the trivial things at home gradually increased, and the plan to find the human skin was delayed, until now, my children are all older, and the teaching position is not so heavy, so I made time to come here to explore the human skin, but I didn't expect that, according to the method taught by the previous shadow puppet artist, I actually found the human skin lightly, and there was an incredible exchange, which was really beneficial, this is amazing, until now, I think about it, It feels like a dream, and sometimes I can't believe it's real."
Hearing this, it dawned on us that we knew the cause and effect of these things.
"When that shadow puppet artist came here, didn't he meet Mr. Yuan's seniors? Supposedly, these houses are not far from the big tree, and he should be able to find them", Kenya asked thoughtfully, and everyone had the same question.
Regarding the time when the shadow puppet artist came here, Old Man Yuan probably asked, and determined that at that time period, it should be Old Man Yuan's father, who was here to "guard the tomb", but Old Man Yuan explained that at that time, there were no such houses, and they did not live here, these houses were built by him only a few years ago, so it is not surprising that the shadow puppet artist did not meet them.
But in the process of Professor Shan's narration, Madman Six stared at him expressionlessly, and for some reason, he didn't seem to believe Professor Shan's words.