Chapter 256: Ghost Shadow
Basang kneaded while stirring, and after a while, he kneaded a ball of dark yellow tsamba about the size of a palm. I thought it was just a half-finished product, but I didn't expect him to stuff it directly into his mouth.
I was completely shocked by the cheap and Dong Xiaodan, but Professor Dong and Seabeard didn't care, and they also learned from Basang to start making zuòtsamba.
I saw that Basang was eating with relish, and I couldn't help but secretly wonder: although this butter tea does not smell very good, it may not taste too bad when it is mixed with tsamba noodles. Since I came, I had to taste the taste, so I also kneaded the tsampa noodles, but before kneading, I still asked Dong Xiaodan to take a napkin and wipe my dusty hands, if I was like Basan, I couldn't eat it.
The tsamba was quickly pinched, I first took it to my nose and smelled it, there was still a strange smell, I held my breath and took a bite gently, but I didn't expect it to taste good.
Seeing that I had already swallowed, he whispered on the side, "Brother, how does it taste?" ”
I nodded at him: "This tsamba is okay, it's better than I expected!" Hearing me say this, Cheap and Dong Xiaodan also kneaded the tsamba noodles.
After eating tsamba and drinking half a bowl of butter tea, I noticed that my body seemed to have recovered a lot, and other people felt the same way as me.
Professor Dong explained to us that butter tea can alleviate altitude sickness, which is why Tibetans who have been taking butter tea for a long time do not suffer from altitude sickness.
Hearing him say this, I suddenly felt a little more fond of butter tea.
While we were eating tsamba and drinking butter tea, Pasang had already started talking to Uncle Jampa, but they both spoke Tibetan, and we didn't know what they were talking about.
After chatting for a while, Basang said to us: "Uncle Qiangba said that Tashi Dorjee went to Doma Monastery, a few days ago because of a small earthquake, the landslide led to the collapse of Doma Monastery, and many middle-aged laborers in the village went to Doma Monastery to help. ”
Professor Dong was slightly stunned, and hurriedly asked, "Doma Temple has collapsed?" Is there anything wrong with Master Dolma? ”
Basang immediately turned his head and asked Uncle Qiangba in Tibetan, Uncle Qiangba muttered a lot, after listening to it, Basang turned his head and said to everyone: "Master Zhuoma is fine, it was the middle of the night when the incident happened, a side hall in the monastery collapsed, and the monks in the temple were resting in the back room at that time, so there were no casualties, but the whole monastery was damaged more severely, and the terrain of Doma Temple is dangerous, and it is estimated that it will take some time to repair." ”
Hearing that Master Dolma was fine, Professor Dong breathed a sigh of relief.
We were chatting when the majestic barking of the Tibetan mastiff suddenly came from outside the door. Uncle Qiangba's face changed slightly, he immediately stood up, without saying a word, quickly walked to the door, picked up the long-barreled shotgun hanging next to the door and rushed out of the door.
We realized that something was wrong, and we hurriedly got up and followed Uncle Qiangba out of the house.
At this time, the sky was completely dark, and by the dim light outside the house, you could see the situation within a radius of a few zhang, and it was basically invisible in a little farther away.
The huge Tibetan mastiff barked in one direction, but we looked in that direction and saw nothing.
In order to be able to see a little further, I took out a flashlight from my backpack and shone it in that direction, but there was still nothing.
I was wondering, suddenly a white shadow passed through between the flashlight, the speed was extremely fast, I couldn't see what it was, Dong Xiaodan screamed in fright, I was also nervous, hurriedly stretched out my hand to my waist to hold the dragon's teeth, and asked in a low voice, "What was it just now?" ”
Wen Qingshan whispered: "I look like a person, I should still be wearing a woolen jacket!" ”
Seabeard turned to Basang and said, "Brother, ask Uncle Qiangba, who will it be?" ”
As soon as he finished speaking, before Basang could speak, Uncle Qiangba said slowly in somewhat stiff Chinese: "It's a weak man." ”
Everyone was taken aback, everyone didn't expect Uncle Qiangba to be able to speak Chinese.
Professor Dong thought he had misheard, and hurriedly asked, "Uncle Qiangba, what did you just say?" ”
Uncle Qiangba turned his head and said to everyone again: "It's a weak man!" ”
I was stunned for a moment, and then suddenly remembered what Professor Dong had just told us about our weak man, and I couldn't help but exclaim: "Could it be that there are walking corpses moving around here?" Everyone suddenly became nervous, and Dong Xiaodan immediately hid behind me and pulled my clothes tightly with his hands.
However, everyone took the flashlight and shone around for a long time, but they couldn't find the black shadow just now, and they didn't know if the thing was hiding or had slipped away.
When Uncle Qiangba saw that the Tibetan mastiff had stopped barking and said a word in Tibetan, he turned around and went into the house.
Basang translated: "Uncle Qiangba said that the weak man should have left, it's cold outside, let's go into the house first." ”
Everyone followed into the room, and after taking their seats, Professor Dong asked, "Uncle Qiangba, do you speak Chinese?" ”
Uncle Qiangba replied in stiff Mandarin: "I can say a little, I used to work in the Nagqu Forestry Public Security Bureau. ”
Wen Qingshan hurriedly asked: "Just now you said that the figure is a weak man, what is the basis?" ”
Uncle Qiangba sighed and told us, but because he didn't speak Mandarin very well, he mostly spoke in Tibetan, while Pasang was in charge of translating.
It turned out that since the collapse of Doma Temple due to a landslide half a month ago, there has been a mysterious creature in this area, dozens of goats from the herdsmen's family were all bitten to death by this creature overnight, at first everyone thought it was the snow leopard, but when these goats were dissected, it was found that the blood in their bodies had been sucked dry. Although the snow leopard attacks herds, it does not suck blood, and it has sucked the blood of dozens of goats dry. Just when everyone was puzzled, another herdsman's yak herd was attacked, and in one night, seven adult yaks were bitten to death, and the death was the same as those goats, and the blood was sucked dry.
If the goat herd may be attacked by the snow leopard and died, then the first yak was bitten to death, this matter is a little difficult to explain, the yak is the largest herbivore in the plateau area, the adult yak is strong, each foot weighs four or five hundred pounds, and the yak has a fierce temperament, if it is not in the case of extreme hunger, the general snow leopard will not attack the adult yak, let alone bite seven adult yaks in one night.
This means that it wasn't the snow leopard who did it! But in the highlands, the snow leopard is the largest carnivore, and no other animal threatens the yak except the snow leopard, if not the snow leopard.
What the villagers did not expect was that the matter did not end there, and in the following period, livestock were attacked one after another, including the ferocious Tibetan mastiff, and without exception, the animals that were attacked and killed were drained of blood.
The villagers were panicked for a moment, so they went to Doma Monastery to seek advice from the respected Dolma Master, who explained the reason.
It all started more than 200 years ago.
This area belongs to the plateau pastoral area, originally people did not live in the adobe houses we see now, but tents and felt bags, every once in a while, they would set up camp to find a place with more abundant water and grass, and lived a nomadic life without a fixed place.
More than 200 years ago, a local Tusi prince accidentally fell into the nearby Chishui Lake and died, three days later the body was found, what makes people feel incredible is that when the prince was salvaged from the water, his face was ruddy, and his body showed no signs of swelling, it looked like he was asleep, everyone thought that the prince must have been blessed by the gods, so the body could not rot, so it was unprecedented that the body was not buried, but enshrined it, and went to worship.
However, a terrible thing happened a few days later, when some of the villagers were worshipping the prince, he suddenly opened his eyes and sat up, and the lamas and the villagers who were present thought that it was a divine spirit, and hurriedly leaned down and looked even more religious.
Who knew that this prince suddenly launched an attack on everyone present, his speed was extremely fast, and the people present were all on the ground with their faces on the ground, defenseless, and even when the people in front were attacked, the people behind did not know what was happening. Therefore, in the end, only a small number of people survived, and those who were attacked by him were all drained of their blood.
What's even more terrifying is that the person who was drained of his body blood will be transformed into a corpse in less than two days, turning into a walking corpse without humanity and continuing to attack others.
It didn't take long for almost all the nomadic tribes within a radius of dozens of miles to be attacked by the walking corpses, and just when the people were helpless, a Bon elder suddenly arrived, and he told the surviving villagers that the Tusi prince was possessed by the evil spirit of Chishui Lake, which is a thousand-year-old evil lake, and the reason why the lake is red is because the blood of an ancient evil spirit flows into the lake. Now that the evil spirit is reborn with the help of Prince Toast's corpse, there is only one way to resolve the disaster, and that is to cremate Prince Toast's body. And bury his ashes at the top of Mount Dagadoma.
The Bon elder asked the surviving villagers to help him, and piled up a large pile of dried yak dung beside the Chishui Lake, and at night, he lit the dung heap and danced the sacred dance alone around the bonfire, while dancing, while chanting the ancient and mysterious Bon mantra in his mouth, the toast prince possessed by the evil spirit was summoned, as if he was fascinated, he also danced with the Bon elder, and finally, the Bon elder jumped into the fire, and the toast prince also jumped into the fire and was burned to ashes.