Chapter 16: Ignition
Liu Daxian popped up many questions in one breath, stabbing into my head one by one like needles, and I have thought about these problems many times, but I have encountered too many things during this time, too many problems that challenge psychological pressure, so that I can't concentrate at all.
From the moment Zhao Shouquan said that his mother-in-law was killed, I realized that I couldn't participate in and change the current situation, but I was unwilling, and my descendants must avenge the blood and hatred, but I heard that my mother-in-law is not a person, and Yin Shu and Yin Xiaoyao in the Yin Huai coffin are the granddaughters of my mother-in-law...... I was stunned, as if I was in a vortex full of unknowns and bizarreness, surrounded by smooth, curved walls, and I couldn't borrow my strength.
Zhao Shouquan's appearance is very strange, his arrival is accompanied by the death of his mother-in-law, the appearance of the Yin Huai coffin, the bronze coffin, the ritual of sacrificing to the sky... Especially the clear and real dream by the tree hole just now, I had an indescribable feeling for him.
Who the hell is he? And the mysterious place in his mouth, the Pavilion of the Dead, made me full of fear and desire to explore him.
I hesitated for a moment, and told Liu Daxian about the dream just now, after all, he was from Ten Miles and Eight Villages, and he could believe it to a greater extent than Zhao Shouquan.
After Liu Daxian heard my words, his old face trembled, "You mean... Is there a house down there? Is there a bronze coffin in the house? ”
I nodded, "Yes, but it's just a dream." ”
"What if not?"
"What?" I was frightened by Liu Daxian's words.
Liu Daxian looked at me with an unusually serious expression, "I once heard a legend from my master, he said that he learned Taoism because of an adventure when he was a child, and he saw the underworld, which was in a nearby village. Master has lived here since I was a child, and he wanted me to carry on his last wish, so I never left, and now I think about the fact that Master would mention his childhood adventures every time he drank after drinking during his lifetime, and the depiction was vivid.
I used to think it was Master's joke, but now I listen to you, is there really a hell under this tree hole that no one knows! ”
I recalled the scene in the dream, it was really like the underworld, but I heard it since I was a child, but I didn't see the Nai He Bridge, Meng Po, black and white impermanence, bull head and horse face, just a black-robed man exactly like Zhao Shouquan, and a coffin.
I told Liu Daxian about the doubts in my heart, but he said: "I mean that the master may have entered the bottom like you, and when he saw the scene inside, he naturally thought it was the underworld, which is not impossible." ”
"What then? I can't go down and look at it. ”
Liu Daxian groaned: "If it is true, Zhao Shouquan is absolutely inseparable from this matter, then the bronze coffin may be buried in it." As far as I know, the people in the Pavilion of the Afterlife are not good people, ruthless, unscrupulous, I once heard that a girl in the Pavilion of the Afterlife killed an entire mountain of animals in order to catch demons, those who were contaminated with aura and did not develop their intelligence, all of them were killed! Whoever dares to provoke such a person is completely a butcher and an executioner! ”
I was stunned after listening to Liu Daxian's words, Zhao Shouquan told me about the Past Life Pavilion, but I didn't expect such a cruel person inside, so I couldn't help but be a little flustered and said, "He wants to take me to the Life Pavilion." ”
"Huh?" Liu Daxian's eyes widened, "You can't go!" I don't know how many people died there, are you going to send them to death? ”
"Dead people?"
"Every year, there are people who go to the Pavilion of the Dead, those who study art, those who invite gods, and those who do business, although I have not been to the Pavilion in person, but I still know some of the rumors of the Pavilion of the Afterlife, and many people have never appeared again after entering, and I heard that the living people are used as sacrifices to meet the requirements of some guests. There are those who raise ghosts, those who make zombies, and even those who bury living people in the underworld. ”
Liu Daxian said that I have a cold wind on my back, and Zhao Shouquan wants to harm me? It didn't look like it, but his origins and methods, as well as the dream, cast a lingering shadow over his image in my heart, and made me timid.
"I have a solution." Liu Daxian saw that I was frightened, and said: "Now the bronze coffin under the tree hole is our most terrible enemy, we can find someone to pour gasoline into it, no matter what it is to burn first, if Zhao Shouquan does not agree, it means that he has another mind in his heart." ”
In front of him, he only listened to Liu Daxian's words, the dead horse was regarded as a live horse doctor, compared to the coffin under the tree hole, Zhao Shouquan beside him had outstanding ability, and his hand in summoning the five ghosts in the courtyard was almost unimaginable if it was used on us.
After a brief discussion with Liu Daxian, the two of us also left the courtyard, and when it was noon, we began to knock on the door of each house to explain the intention, most people still had hatred in their eyes when they saw me, I knew that I could not change their minds, but I had to endure cold eyes for the sake of everyone's lives. Fortunately, the people in the village are still full of respect for Liu Daxian, and when the demons and ghosts are in trouble, they all take out gasoline in the hope that Liu Daxian can save their lives.
In the afternoon, Liu Daxian and I transported three barrels of gasoline to the courtyard, and to my surprise, Zhao Shouquan was still not seen after the whole village had been wandered around, he had not appeared since he left early in the morning, and the people in the village had not seen him.
I put the gasoline on the edge of the tree hole with a big head and muttered, "The roads in the village are blocked, where can Zhao Shouquan go?" Liu Daxian, do you think he can run away by himself? ”
Liu Daxian just followed me all the way, and I did all the hard work, he stood up with his hands and said: "I don't think he will leave, but it's a good thing that he doesn't come back, let's do ours." ”
"Is your body okay? If you want me to say, you'd better go and rest. ”
Liu Daxian frowned, and there were still blood stains on his robe, "I'm fine, I can't deal with the bronze coffin below, we all have to die." ”
"I beg you, but don't say the word death again, okay? Isn't it scary, I'm getting scared out of my mind these days. ”
Liu Daxian actually laughed, "Who is not afraid of death?" If you don't want to die, hurry up and pour gasoline into it. ”
I pursed my lips and laboriously lifted the gasoline and poured it into the hollow of the tree, and after pouring a bucket, I suddenly remembered the shallow puddle of water that I had fallen from in my dream, and I didn't know if it would affect the gasoline.
When the sun set in the evening, I poured all three barrels of gasoline into the hollow of the tree and said, "Liu Daxian, why didn't you think of this trick earlier." ”
Liu Daxian's small eyes glanced at me, "God has the virtue of a good life, people are buried here, why destroy people's graves if it is not necessary?" And the appearance of the Yin Huai coffin has always made me a little scared, in case the main owner below is fine, let's let it out with a little fire, wouldn't it be looking for death? ”
"Are you sure you won't release it early now?"
"Not sure, but is there any other way we can do it?"
I hesitated and said, "Or, wait for Zhao Shouquan?" ”
"Don't worry, he will definitely come back before dark, you can order it, if he really has a way to subdue the bronze coffin under the tree hole, we will do the same thing. If he comes back to stop us, it means that he has a relationship with the things below, and he doesn't want us to destroy the bronze coffin. ”
I think what Liu Daxian said is reasonable, I went back to the house to find a box of matches for a long time, and when I walked to the yard, my heart was still very messy, on the one hand, I was not sure of Zhao Shouquan's true purpose, and on the other hand, I was worried that Liu Daxian's method would release the things in the bronze coffin, and when he was in a good state, he couldn't even fight Yin Shu, not to mention that he was injured now, and he had to face the main owner in the bronze coffin.
"Look at what, light the fire." Liu Daxian urged me.
I drew a match, and was about to light it when there was a sudden thunderclap in the sky, and my hand shook and the match fell to the ground.
I looked up, how could the sky, which had finally cleared up in the afternoon, be full of dark clouds? I looked down at the hole in the tree in front of me in fear, could it be that the contents were about to come out so soon?
Thinking of this, I didn't dare to hesitate any longer, so I struck a match again.
"Don't."
A voice suddenly sounded, I turned my head to look at Liu Daxian questioningly, he also looked at me, "Why don't you order yet, when are you going to go?" ”
I looked around timidly, "Liu Daxian, did you hear a woman's voice?" ”
"Woman? Where is a woman's voice? ”
I'm shaking my head, is it a hallucination? But that voice really appeared, was it Yin Shu? She reappeared?
I swallowed and foamed, holding the match between my fingers.
"Don't do it."
This time I heard it clearly, looked around sharply, and said, "There really is a voice!" ”
Liu Daxian frowned, saw me grinding, snatched the match from my hand, picked it up and stroked it, poof, a weak flame ignited in front of us.
"Don't!"
The woman's voice became even stronger, and just as Liu Daxian was about to throw the match down, I suddenly remembered the owner of the voice.
- Yin Yaoyao!
My hand involuntarily touched the puppet hidden in my chest, and I watched as the flame was thrown into the well, like a star, piercing the night sky and falling.
"Fuck, look for death!"
A vicissitudes of sound came from outside the door, and I turned my head to see Zhao Shouquan's tall figure appear.
In the next second, a fire about two meters high erupted from the hole in the tree!