Chapter 488: Shadow Puppet Artist
It was really unexpected—at this moment, two people suddenly appeared, and their target was the cave where the 'ghost' had disappeared!
Every accidental coincidence has a necessary reason, and behind these series of coincidences, there must be secrets that we don't know, and these secrets, for us, may never be known, another world, and its shock is no less than seeing those monsters.
I saw the two whisper for a while, and then, the man took out a rope from the backpack behind him, tied something to the rope, and gently put it into the hole, and after a while, there was a burst of wild laughter from the hole - it was still the laughter of the 'ghost', and for some reason, after hearing the laughter of the 'ghost', the two actually looked at each other and smiled.
Now, for us, the laughter of the 'ghost' is no longer strange, but the 'smile of the two of them' makes us feel that there is a lot of article in it.
After a pause, the middle-aged man began to pull the rope out, and when the rope was all pulled up, we noticed that the thing that was originally tied to the end was gone.
Then, the two of them stood up, put the rope in their bags, looked around again, and prepared to go back. At this moment, something unexpected happened - Crazy Six suddenly stood up and shouted, "Don't go yet. ”
We hardly expected him to do this, but since he did it, it would be pointless for us to be hidden, so we all stood up.
And the two men, stunned by this sudden situation, froze there, looking at us in a daze, and the madman six was the first to come down from the boulder, and we followed closely in front of the two men.
Perhaps this happened so suddenly that they didn't react until we stood in front of the two of us, just staring at us with wide eyes and horrified faces.
"That monster inside is harmful, why are you feeding it something to eat, is it raised by the two of you?" At first glance, I really wanted to laugh when I heard Maniac Six ask this, but I knew that he did it on purpose.
"No, no...... That thing wasn't fed to it...... We didn't raise it...... Is that the ...... What's in there...... Have you seen it too? The middle-aged man said incoherently.
"Of course I saw it, it was a human skin, what is the purpose of you coming here?" Madman Six asked menacingly, pressing step by step, the two of them were already panicked enough, and seeing Madman Six's attitude, they were even more confused.
"We are here to do research", and at the critical moment, it was the young woman who was more calm.
"Yes, yes, we do research", the middle-aged man hurriedly echoed.
My cousin also spoke at this time, but unlike Crazy Man Six, his tone was very soft: "I see, we are here to do research, this is my business card", he took out a business card and handed it over.
The middle-aged man hurriedly took it and looked at it, then was startled, looked up at his cousin and said: "Oh, you are Mr. Wang, I have read all the books you have written, especially the one that discusses how to use county chronicles to study history, I really benefited a lot, I didn't expect to meet it here and in such a way, it is really fateful." ”
After hearing this, my cousin was also slightly surprised: "Oh? Are you also engaged in history? ”
"Sort of, we are from the Provincial Academy of Fine Arts, specializing in art history, this is my supervisor Professor Shan Tong, and I am his doctoral student Tian Liwen", without waiting for the middle-aged man to speak, the woman introduced in a pleasant voice.
In this way, the atmosphere slowly became harmonious, and the relationship between the two people was restored to normal.
However, the "sudden attack" of the madman Liu just now made the two of them reveal a lot of information in a panic, for example, the so-called Professor Shan asked us rhetorically, "Have you seen it too", just by asking this question, it can basically be concluded that he has also seen that 'ghost'.
However, the madman six and his cousin, one sings white-faced and the other red-faced, and they cooperate very tacitly.
At this time, my cousin asked Old Man Yuan, "Brother Yuan, is it convenient to invite this Professor Shan and classmate Tian to your hospital for a talk?" ”
Old man Yuan said very happily: "Of course you can, there is nothing inconvenient, please two of you." ”
In this way, the two of us came to Old Man Yuan's courtyard with a few of us, and everyone sat down again as they did just now.
If you think about it, this mountain is really weird, not only are there all kinds of monsters, but even the things encountered are so weird, after this tossing, in a short period of time, not only did we see the mysterious disappearance of the "ghost", but also met two people so quickly - and for us, they are very mysterious two people.
As soon as he sat down, his cousin didn't go around in circles, so he asked straight to the point: "Professor Shan, listening to your tone, that strange human skin, you seem to have seen it?" ”
The cousin's question was so direct and so fast that Professor Shan was a little flustered again, and he didn't seem to know how to answer for a while, but just laughed dryly twice and said, "Ha, ha, yes...... Well...... That's a bit of a long story."
To hide his embarrassment, he picked up his teacup and took a sip of water, as if he were deliberately delaying his time in order to think about how to answer his cousin's question, but his cousin stared at him intently.
After drinking the water, Professor Shan took out another cigarette, lit it and took two puffs, as if trying to calm his feelings, no one spoke, they all stared at him with their eyes, waiting for him to answer, this atmosphere formed an invisible pressure on Professor Shan.
Professor Shan coughed twice, as if trying to break the somewhat embarrassing atmosphere, and then spoke slowly: "Mr. Wang is right, I have indeed seen that kind of weird human skin.
Actually, I had heard of this kind of human skin decades ago.
At that time, I was also studying for a Ph.D., and my research direction was Chinese art history, as well as traditional folk arts and crafts, and once I went to a mountain in the land of Bashu to visit a famous shadow puppet artist.
The shadow puppet artist, who was more than 100 years old at the time, was born in a shadow puppet family, and since he was a child, he followed his father and brother to travel north and south, making a living from shadow puppetry, and his skills in shadow puppetry are extremely superb.
And, about this old shadow puppet artist, there is one of the most legendary experiences, this experience will be shocking to everyone.
When this old shadow puppet artist was young, it was the era of our Chinese warlords, especially in their place, the mountains were high and the emperor was far away, and there were mountains as a cover, and there were many bandits, among them, there was one of the most ferocious bandits called Liu Erstun, this Liu Erstun, it was so cruel that there was no humanity, in order to occupy his sister-in-law, he actually killed his own brother, for his own siblings, not to mention others.
He was so promiscuous that he not only had dozens of wives and concubines, but also had to send the girls in the villages under his jurisdiction to him to 'bud' before they got married, and if anyone dared not do so, he would kill his entire family.
Those who dare to resist Liu Ershou a little will be buried alive by Liu Erzhuo, thrown into the oil pot and cooked to death, or even Ling Chi or peeled the skin, and the common people dare to be angry but dare not speak out against this murderer.
One year, when a student came back from studying in Germany, when he came to this area to investigate geology, he occasionally heard Liu Er's viciousness, and felt very shocked and angry, so he reported this situation to the government at that time, but the government at that time was corrupt and incompetent, and it was incapable of eliminating Liu Erstun.
But when Liu Er was stunned to hear this, he was furious, he was a soil emperor in this area, and no one had ever dared to challenge him so blatantly, so he arrested the student who stayed in Germany and brutally cut open his chest.
When the international student's chest was dissected, he was actually not dead, which is outrageous, Liu Erxuan actually took it upon himself to drag the internal organs of the international student out one by one, which was really tragic.
Coincidentally, when this happened, the shadow puppet artist was in Liu Erstun's cottage - he was called by Liu Erstun to play shadow puppetry, and this extremely bloody scene was seen by the shadow puppet artists.
The student died tragically like this, and all the internal organs were taken out by Liu Er, which made the most ferocious bandits tremble.
But what I didn't expect was that the shadow puppet artist put forward a request, which everyone didn't expect - the shadow puppet artist asked Liu Erstunned to give him the body of the international student, and he wanted to use the corpse of the international student to make a 'human shadow puppet', and then use this 'human shadow puppet' to perform for Liu Erstunned.
Liu Er was stunned and laughed, and praised the shadow puppet artist's idea again and again, just like that, the shadow puppet artist took away the corpse of the international student, and then after processing, it really made a 'human shadow puppet'.
All the people in the local area secretly scolded this shadow puppet artist, saying that in order to please Liu Er, he actually did this kind of thing of cutting off children and grandchildren, which was really unconscionable.
The shadow puppet artist pretended not to hear these discussions, but still did it his own way.
This 'human shadow puppet' is really unprecedented, no one has ever seen it before, and when all the people see this 'human shadow puppet', they feel both frightened and shocked - if this 'human shadow puppet' is not unfolded, at first glance, it looks like a torn clothes, but when it is unfolded, it looks like a living person, and the human skin, as if it is still alive, will shiver when the weather is cold, and sweat when it is hot.
After this human skin was ready, the shadow puppet artist took it, and Liu Er was really stunned for a performance, which made Liu Er stunned and laughed, and danced with his hands.
After the performance, the shadow puppet artist temporarily put this 'human shadow puppet' on Liu Er's cottage, saying that he would come back tomorrow to continue the performance.
That night, there was a strong wind in the mountains, and in the middle of the night, Liu Erxuan was awakened by thirst because he had drunk a lot of wine before going to bed, so he asked his little wife who was waiting for him to light the lamp and then find water to drink.
At this moment, he suddenly heard a giggling sound outside, which made the fire in his heart swell up, and he thought to himself who dared to be so bold, and he didn't sleep in the middle of the night, and ran to his house to make noise and laugh, he really didn't want to live, so he pushed away his little wife, opened the door and went out.
By the moonlight, he was extremely shocked to find that there was a person floating in the air, his feet off the ground, and still giggling, Liu Er's legs were so frightened that his legs were weak, and he almost sat on the ground, leaning on the door frame behind him to sit down - he was cruel and didn't believe in gods and ghosts, but what was in front of him, this thing floating in the air, not a ghost?
He wanted to shout, but probably because he was too frightened, he opened his mouth a few times, but he didn't shout.
Suddenly, the black shadow suddenly floated in front of him, almost face to face with him, but still with his feet on the ground, floating in the air, at this moment, Liu Er was stunned and saw it clearly, the black shadow in front of him was none other than the international student who was disemboweled! At this time, the international student was baring his teeth and smiling at him. ”