Chapter 59: The Legend of the Stone Statue
"Mr. Liu, it won't let you go, can it let your whole family go? The reason why it has left you until now is because it has not found a home, and you still have some use value, but it will be found soon, so if you want to live, you should tell us, and when we catch it, your family's life will be saved. ”
"But how can I believe you can catch it?"
"Mr. Liu, I'm not bargaining with you. Believe it or not, it's just as dangerous, and you have to tell us where it is as soon as possible to have a chance of living. ”
"Okay, okay! It is now in Building 29, Area C3 of Jade Emperor Manor on Xiyue Road. ”
"Good fellow, it's still a villa, you go with us."
"I'm not going, I can't go, I've got to go, give you the key."
"Wait a minute, Mr. Liu, do you know what the consequences will be if you lie to us?"
"I ...... What am I talking about...... It's true. ”
"Alright! Let's go. ”
The tape is blank for a few seconds.
"17 November 1997"
"Bang ~ "
"Brother Hei, he lied to us, I didn't see any yin qi."
"Let's go take a look."
"Let's ...... it."
"Xiao Lu, you two are watching from below, I'll go upstairs and have a look."
"Right...... Let's ...... Let's ......."
There was some cacophony coming from the tape.
"There's a stone statue, but it's just a stone sculpture. Let's go!"
"Shall we go to that person again?"
"No need, now go to Heshuo Village, the body of this kind of thing is there."
The tape was blank for a few seconds, and then the voices of three people came from inside, and the first to speak was the soul hunter Hei Wu.
"How long have we been gone?"
"It's been almost 10 minutes."
"Brother Hei, we can't go wrong, right? It's been 10 minutes and I haven't seen a fork in the road. ”
"That man's words aren't also deceiving, right? Are you sure the stone statue is back in Heshuo Village? ”
"The story should be true, but the stone statue is not necessarily on this path. Its main body is in the area of Heshuo Village, so it will definitely come back here. ”
"It's not a way to go this way, before we came just now, we should have inquired, now go back and ask if there is any way."
The tape is blank here for a few seconds.
"Uncle, I'll ask you something."
“……”
"Is there a waterfall around here? Is it down the trail over there? ”
"What? Poof? ”
"It's water coming down from the mountains, is there any water around here?"
"Oh, there are mountains, there are."
"Where? Do you give fingers? ”
"It's a bit of a walk from there, in the depths."
"Old man, is there a fork in the road?"
"A fork in the road? You can't go when you encounter a fork in the road. ”
"Why?"
"If there is any fork in the road, if there is, it is all driven by lonely souls and wild ghosts who died in the mountains, and if anyone goes wrong, it will be dead."
"Uncle, are you joking, someone encountered a fork in the road and saw a stone statue."
"Hiss~ stone statue? You can't worship that. ”
"Uncle, do you know something?"
"Know what? What are you talking about? ”
"Old man, we are here to find the stone statue, and we want to know more about this stone statue."
"What are you looking for a stone statue? Do you want to worship too? ”
"No, someone had an accident after worshipping."
"Alas, the stone statues encountered on the mountain road can't be worshiped casually, that's the place where the lonely souls and wild ghosts can settle down, in order to prevent them from becoming powerful ghosts and harming people, if they worship, of course something will happen."
"Is the kind of stone statue you are talking about with the words "Responsive" written on it?"
"Responsive?"
"Yes, there is a request, and it was met on a fork in the road on that road."
"Well, then we're not talking about the same thing, I'm talking about the kind on our mountain path, there are many."
"And do you know what we're talking about?"
"This kind of thing you are talking about, it should be a legend of ours here, have you really encountered it?"
"Well, I did. Now that the situation is a bit urgent, we need to know more about the origin of this stone statue, this is to save people, if you know, please tell me about it. ”
"Uh...... Save? ”
"Yes, someone worshipped, and then something happened."
"Alas, these things, whether they are on the side of the mountain or in the mountains, cannot be worshiped casually. If you have to respond to your request, it must be something to exchange.
Since you're here to save people, I'll talk about it, but it's not necessarily if I can help you, it's just a legend, and I haven't encountered it anyway. ”
"Trouble, old man."
"It's fine. Although this responsive stone statue is a legend, it is really recorded in our county records and some local miscellaneous books.
But even if it's recorded, it's a bit of a god or a ghost, so you should listen to it as a story. ”
"Nice old man. You wait a minute. ”
"Smack~" The tape went to the end, and Qin Ding put the seventh plate into it.
"Okay, you can say it."
"Oh. The incident I'm going to talk about has to do with the mountains over there, and if you look over there, do you see, between those two mountains, there used to be an ancient battlefield.
That's what happened there. It is said that during the Ming Dynasty, a general brought his troops to fight there, but he was betrayed and ambushed, and the whole army was annihilated.
The general drank hatred and became resentful, and became a fierce ghost in the mountains and forests, not only harming the people who went up the mountain, but also going down the mountain to continue to cause trouble, making it more and more fierce.
Later, a Taoist priest surnamed Song came here and used Taoism to trap the general's soul in a stone.
This Song Taoist priest went to the stone every day to chant mantras to resolve the general's grievances, and after a long time, the Taoist priest built a house in the mountain and became a Taoist temple, which is now the old Taoist temple on the mountain over there. ”
"Wait a minute, uncle, I heard someone say before that the old Taoist temple was not built by a Taoist priest surnamed Ji, how did it become surnamed Song."
"Tsk, that's all nonsense they say, I'm true, my son is from the county Ethnic and Religious Affairs Bureau, he knows a lot.
Actually, I didn't believe this at first, but then my son said that it was recorded in ancient books. ”
"We believe the old man, you go on."
This Taoist priest surnamed Song insisted on going to resolve the grievances of the general's resentment every day, and after a long time, the general's resentment was not so fierce, and slowly recovered some of its nature, but it could not be reincarnated because it had harmed too many people before.