Chapter 24: The Bardo Body

There was silence in the morgue, and none of us spoke, watching the spectacle.

Grandma's corpse sat motionless on the corpse bed, seemingly ignorant of the outside world. Master Hong Chen stopped chanting, opened his eyes and looked at it, his face was expressionless, as if such a thing was completely expected.

She took out three long sticks of incense from the incense burner, chanted words in her mouth, held the incense in her hand, used the incense as a pen, and drew several symbols with a very complex structure in the air. Then he took three long incense sticks, and the incense head rushed down and slammed into the incense burner. It doesn't matter if you plug it in, it will happen suddenly.

Grandma's corpse seemed to be conscious, turning her head slightly from side to side, and her neck looked particularly stiff, just like a human skin puppet. The eyes have no pupils, and they are snow-white. She slowly stretched out her withered hand, paddling from side to side, as if groping for something in the dark. At this time, the flame of the ever-bright lamp actually became non-yellow and non-green, faint and burning, and the atmosphere was very strange.

Hong Chen took out a copper bell from his arms, and began to chant very strange words and phrases, shaking the bell gently. With the crisp ringing, grandma's movements became louder and louder, and her upper body jerked forward, over the corpse bed, while the lower body was still on the bed, causing the whole person to lose her balance and fall to the ground.

Li Yang was so distressed that he said "oops", and he wanted to step forward, but I grabbed it with my hand and eyes.

I shook my head at him solemnly, the whole thing was weird and inexplicable, let's see.

Master Hongchen shook the bell again, and Grandma slowly stood up from the ground. Her hair was scattered, her face was wrinkled, her face was dripping with droplets, she rolled the whites of her eyes, and she was walking step by step with her body bent.

I, Li Yang, and Lao Tiantou involuntarily took a step back, leaned on each other, and watched nervously. Hong Chen stood up, looked at his grandmother's corpse, the corners of his mouth slowly raised, and he actually smiled. She slowly shook the bell around the corpse, and her grandmother opened her snow-white eyes blankly and slowly followed the rhythm of the bell.

But no matter how she acted, she could see at a glance that this was a dead person, and there was no trace of life on her body.

Hong Chen stopped the bell and walked over and said, "The bardo body has been invited, if you have any questions, you can ask them." ”

Li Yang pointed to the corpse and asked, "Auntie, master, is it like this...... How do you ask, grandma, can she speak? ”

"You don't have to use words to answer a question." Hong Chen said.

Li Yang took a step forward with courage, first kowtowed three times to the corpse, then stood up, and said respectfully: "Grandma, where are you now?" ”

Grandma stood motionless, hunched over, with a puddle of water on the ground.

Li Yang took a step forward and said the question again.

Hong Chen gently shook the bell, but the strange thing was that no matter how he shook it this time, the corpse didn't move.

Hong Chen's face was a little solemn, he walked closer, circled around the corpse counterclockwise, shaking it while circling, the bell rang rapidly, but the old lady remained unmoved, her eyes turned white, and she was lifeless.

Lao Tiantou's throat fluttered, and he said cautiously: "Master, do you want to collect the credit?" How I feel wrong. ”

Hong Chen's face was cloudy, he hesitated, and nodded: "Put the body back." ”

Lao Tiantou said to us, "Hurry up and help, carry the body back to the freezer." ”

I walked over and looked at the corpse up close, not daring to look more, so I went to carry the corpse. Lao Tian pulled his head, Li Yang and I raised our feet, the old lady's body just fell down, Lao Tiantou suddenly screamed, and rushed out like a wolf. Frightened by him like this, Li Yang and I also let go, and the old lady fell to the ground.

Li Yang was furious: "What are you doing? ”

Lao Tiantou trembled with fright: "She, she's alive." ”

I saw that the old lady lying on the ground really moved, her body twitched and twitched, and suddenly "soared" like a carp, and her body stood up straight. The head with the white hair turned slowly, and the nose kept moving, as if he was smelling something. It was exactly the same as the zombie in the movie.

Hong Chen shook the bell desperately, but the old lady didn't react at all, raised her feet and walked forward slowly.

The lights in the morgue flickered, and the atmosphere was extremely strange and terrifying. I stepped back with Li Yang.

The old lady walked a few steps, and Li Yang first saw that something was wrong: "Why is her posture so strange?" ”

The old lady's arms were like falling off rings, swaying from side to side, hunched over and legs crossed, looking like an orangutan. She walked around the morgue slowly, as if she was interested in everything, touching it here and walking there.

Li Yang said a sentence, but it was very vivid: "Why does she look so much like a baby who can just walk?" ”

Hong Chen walked over with the bell and patted the old lady gently. Grandma turned around, blankly swept the whites of her eyes, and her mouth actually made a sound similar to a cat's meow. The voice was particularly sharp and poignant, echoing in the morgue and permeating.

Hong Chen stood in front of his grandmother, looking at each other like this. I saw the black shadow on Hong Chen's body, which actually slowly seeped out again, and the black qi around her body surged, as if she had just come out of a dark tunnel. This time, the black shadow squeezed out from in front of her and walked forward, looking like it was about to walk into her grandmother's corpse.

Grandma still made a cat meow, one sharper than the other. The black shadow really drilled into Grandma's body, only half of it, and suddenly the whole thing flew out again, retracting into Hong Chen's body.

Hong Chen suddenly screamed, fell to the ground and rolled around, as if he was crazy. The offerings and incense burners on the ground were all overturned, the incense ashes were scattered, and the incense fell on the black and white impermanence, and the paper stuff could not touch the sparks, and it suddenly burned.

The scene was chaotic, and the most terrifying thing was Hong Chen, kneeling on the ground and constantly tearing his clothes, as if he was going to pull something out of his body, his hair was scattered, almost hysterical.

And the old lady stood still, her whole body motionless, just her mouth kept meowing, like a humanoid tape recorder.

The flames are going straight ahead, and soon they will burn to the white list. Lao Tiantou was really angry, if something happened, he couldn't eat and walked around. This old man is worthy of his age, and immediately decided: "Xiao Liu Xiaoli, you hurry up and put out the fire and appease the master." I took the old lady's body back to the closet. ”

Li Yang screamed: "No, my grandma is alive, you can't put her in the freezer again." ”

"Fuck you!" Lao Tiantou suddenly stretched out his big hand and slapped Li Yang in the mouth. This old man often does heavy work, and there is no woman to put out the fire, the yang energy is full of strength, and a big mouth makes the corners of Li Yang's mouth bleed, and his face is crooked. A five-finger red mark suddenly appeared on Li Yang's little white face.

"You dare to hit me?" Li Yang's ears were ringing, and he looked at him in disbelief.

"yes, I'm going to whip you! Your grandson should be smoked. Lao Tiantou scolded, and he said to me: "Xiao Liu, hurry up and put out the fire now." I stuffed the old lady's body in the freezer and took the master to the hospital. ”

Li Yang's eyes were red: "Lao Liu, don't listen to him, grandma is alive, I don't allow anyone to deprive her of the right to regenerate." ”

I ignored him, went over to put out the fire, and used my foot to extinguish the fire one by one.

I didn't pay attention for a while, Li Yang and Lao Tiantou over there tore their handles, and the two of them rolled on the ground with their clothes, and they were very happy. I hurriedly walked over and pulled up Li Yang, Li Yang wanted to say something, I slapped him up and looked at his face with a big mouth, Li Yang was stunned, I said coldly: "Wake up, grandma is not alive at all." If you take grandma away like this, something big will happen! I glanced at Lao Tian: "Lao Tian, let's carry the old lady." ”

He and I raised our heads and feet and stuffed the old lady back into the freezer. The old lady opened her snow-white eyes, as if she knew her fate, and her voice turned from sad to soft, and she was pitiful one by one. I took a deep breath, looked at Lao Tian, and made a downward slashing gesture: "Push in!" ”

Lao Tiantou waited for this sentence, and pushed the freezer hard, and the old lady's voice suddenly disappeared into the billowing cold.

When we turned back, we found that things were getting more and more out of control. Li Yang and Hong Chen both disappeared and disappeared without a trace. Lao Tiantou jumped to his feet anxiously: "Go and find it!" They can't be allowed to run around the funeral home. ”

He and I chased him out, and when we arrived at the gate, we saw Li Yang gasping for breath and was stunned. He hung his head and said, "Just now, my aunt and master ran out of the hall like crazy, and I followed her all the time, chased her to the gate, and saw her running out of the funeral parlor far away and disappearing into the night. ”

Lao Tiantou said: "Leave her alone and pack up all your things." Don't talk about today's events, even if they didn't happen. He was condescending and shouted at Li Yang: "Take out your mobile phone." ”

Li Yang hung his head in frustration, that spirit was gone, and took out his mobile phone in front of Lao Tiantou and deleted the audio.

Lao Tian Tou breathed a sigh of relief and glared at him viciously: "Little bastard, my surname Tian is rampant, and I was almost destroyed in your hands today." Stay away from me in the future, or watch it once and smoke it once. ”

After cleaning up the morgue mess, when I came out, it was past midnight. Li Yang drove me and found a small hotel near the funeral home to spend the night. We didn't sleep all night, Li Yang dialed his mobile phone all night, he was really worried about Master Hong Chen.

The next morning, we went back to the funeral home. found the old man, who said with a gloomy face that he had insomnia all night and was always frightened. What is certain is that Hong Chen is missing. Her car is still parked in the museum.

I drove Li Yang's car, Li Yang drove Hong Chen's car, and we went to the Buddhist hall. The door of the temple was locked, and there was no sign of anyone coming back at all.

Li Yang kept asking me, what the hell is going on?

I smoked a cigarette and looked at him, "You don't blame me?" ”

Li Yang smiled bitterly: "Am I the kind of person who doesn't know the general situation?" Come to think of it, you made the right decision last night. Grandma is indeed not alive, but, but has become a state that we can't define. Maybe it's a corpse. If you don't make a quick decision, it is likely to cause endless harm. ”

I said, "Li Yang, don't you think grandma was a bit like a baby last night?" ”

"Baby?"

"Yes. At first, I thought it was a cat meow, but when I thought about it, it was more like a baby's cry. ”

Li Yang looked at me: "What do you mean?" ”

I said word by word: "Li Yang, if grandma's bardo body is in the state of a baby, does it mean ......?"

Li Yang's eyes widened: "It means that she has been reincarnated?" ”

I nodded: "Quite possibly." Grandma's bardo body has been reincarnated after death, and Master Hong Chen made a corpse and summoned the soul back, so there was some kind of yin and yang dislocation that we can't understand, resulting in all kinds of accidents. ”

Li Yang's excited lips trembled: "Grandma has been reincarnated...... Where can she be reincarnated? ”

I didn't say something in my heart, last night's corpse surrender method led my grandmother's soul back, and as a result, we forced her into the freezer. If my guess is correct, even if Grandma is reincarnated, she is now more than lucky.