Volume 1 Mountains and Rivers Chapter 31 The Old Man Who Was Nailed to the Old Locust Tree
"Senior brother?" Seeing that Teng Yi had not spoken for a long time, Canghai couldn't help but worry.
This place is weird, even people, and they are inexplicably confined here without doing anything.
In the past hundred years, it has been called that the heavens should not be, and the earth is not spiritual, if it were not for the master's explanation, the sea would have collapsed long ago.
Teng Yi came back to his senses at this time, although the little junior brother in front of him had spent a hundred years, no matter how he looked at it, he was just a half-grown child inside and out.
"Little junior brother, where did the rest of the village go?" Teng Yi asked.
"They all stay in the mountain temple and only return to the village in the evening." Canghai replied that he still hadn't figured out what had happened to the villagers.
"Do you know what the reason is?" Teng Yi looked surprised, what did he do there in broad daylight.
Canghai shook his head and said blankly: "Senior brother, after I was imprisoned here, they were like this, I couldn't talk to them, and they didn't seem to see me. ”
Teng Yi nodded secretly, he understood that he couldn't get any useful clues from Canghai at all, and he had to go and see for himself.
"Little junior brother, what's going on with your legs?" Teng Yi was quite curious about the mud legs of the sea.
Hearing this, Canghai showed a look of horror, and then said slowly: "It was eaten." ”
"Eaten?" Teng Yi was directly stunned.
"Senior brother, I remember a time when something would come and eat my leg every night, it was like a dream, and I couldn't stop anything." Canghai said tremblingly, and he still has palpitations.
After listening to Canghai's words, Teng Yi couldn't calm down in his heart, and he couldn't speak for a long time.
"The matter of the junior brother has come to this, those are all in the past, please rest assured, the rest will be solved by the senior brother." Teng Yi comforted, he could fully understand the lingering fear in Canghai's heart.
"Senior brother, you have to be careful." Canghai's eyes turned red and he said silently.
"Little junior brother knows where the mountain temple is." Teng Yi asked.
"You know, on a raised cliff, there's a tall old locust tree." At that moment, Canghai told Teng Yi the location of the mountain temple.
After learning the location of the mountain temple, Teng Yi did not delay and hurriedly set off, after all, even the old locust tree had a clue.
The road was not very far, only five or six miles away from Xiaojiu Village, and soon after, Teng Yi came to the cliff rock, and saw the crooked old locust tree growing on the edge of the cliff, and he walked over softly.
This old tree is about half a foot tall, but its sinuous trunk is extremely thick, comparable to an ordinary log cabin.
"Impossible." As soon as he saw the old man nailed to the trunk of the tree by a stake, Teng Yi exclaimed in surprise, with a look of disbelief in his eyes.
The old man was lifeless, always smiling and looking ahead, and the light blue robe on his body was clean and tidy.
Teng Yi stretched out his hand tremblingly, but he grabbed the air, and the old man was like a phantom, which he couldn't see and touch.
But for some reason, Teng Yi always felt that the old man was real.
"Grandpa." Teng Yi couldn't help but shout, he didn't understand why he was here.
In his memory, his grandfather had already passed away, and his coffin and tablet were placed in the village ancestral hall, and Teng Yi was a little at a loss.
Gradually, Teng Yi calmed down, and he began to recall his grandfather's life, although there were few childhood memories, but he hoped to find some clues.
But in the end, there was nothing, Teng Yi could only give up helplessly, he looked at the old man in frustration, and suddenly heard a faint voice in his ears.
"Yi, son."
"Grandpa, are you calling me?" Teng Yi asked in a trembling voice.
"Yi, son."
The voice came again, but it was a little stronger than the last time.
"Yi, son, don't come here, go back, go back quickly."
The old man's words gradually increased, but his expression did not change at all, and he still smiled and looked ahead.
"Grandpa." Teng Yi was slightly uneasy, things were too weird, and he had no reason to convince himself to turn around and leave.
"Yi'er, there are seals here, it's too late if you don't leave."
The old man's voice became urgent, and then stopped abruptly.
"Grandpa?" Teng Yi was anxious in his heart, and at this moment, a gust of yin wind came from behind him, and he suddenly became vigilant, grabbed the axe and slashed out the moment he turned around.
Bang!
The axe knocked off the incoming firewood knife impartially, and Teng Yi saw that there were villagers standing around, their faces were dead and their clothes were ragged, like walking corpses.
"Ahh
At this time, the middle-aged farmer who had just attacked Tengyi let out a scream and pounced again.
Boom!
Teng Yi knocked the opponent to the ground with a single punch, and one stone caused a thousand waves, and the surrounding villagers all rushed towards him like crazy.
"Drink!"
Teng Yi's face was not afraid, he shot decisively, his fist was like the wind, and he knocked all the villagers to the ground with a cup of tea.
"What the hell is going on?" Teng Yi stood with his hands in his hands, his brows furrowed tightly.
These villagers are like the sea, some of them are missing some things, some of them are missing legs, some are missing feet, and some of them are missing their heads.
"Where did the missing pieces go, and why can they be filled with mud?" Teng Yi was puzzled, and he quietly looked at the mountain temple not far away.
It is a single-nave mountain temple, built very simply, with low mud walls, two doors nailed to wooden boards, and a roof covered with grass.
"Woohoo."
"Alas."
At this time, the villagers on the ground made strange noises one after another, and they all knelt down in the direction of the mountain temple.
Bang bang bang.
Teng Yi silently looked at these villagers who were desperately kowtowing to the ground, and walked directly to the mountain temple without stopping at his feet.
Ga.
Teng Yi pushed open the wooden door with one hand, and the pungent sour smell came to his face, and he suddenly didn't dare to step into it, and directly opened both doors completely.
After the tea, the smell had faded a lot, and Teng Yi walked in.
The layout of the mountain temple is extremely simple, Teng Yi's eyes can already see it at a glance, except for a few wooden pillars, there is also a slightly larger offering table placed in the center against the inner wall, and there is not even a statue of the mountain god.
The light in the hall was slightly dark, accompanied by a sultry wind, at this time, Teng Yi noticed that there was a large incense burner on the worship Zhuo, and on the left and right sides of it were some baskets covered with cotton cloth.
"Huh?"
Teng Yi was about to step forward to check, but suddenly, his legs were grabbed by something, and he looked down, and the expression on his face instantly froze.
I saw more than a dozen children crawling on the ground with expressionless faces, and one of them was looking at Teng Yi curiously, sometimes reaching out to touch him.
Teng Yi only felt his scalp tingle, these children gave him the same feeling as a free-range beast, and he cautiously walked towards the worship of Zhuo, avoiding stepping on the children on the ground.
As soon as he approached the offering table, Teng Yi heard an endless stream of sucking sounds, he glanced at the baskets, and immediately understood, and a cold light flashed on his face.
"Is it really the ruthlessness of heaven?"
Teng Yi couldn't believe it, seeing such a tragic layout with his own eyes, he found that there were more man-made signs in it.
"If it's human, then I'm going to fight even more."
He had already made a decision in his heart, Teng Yi didn't dare to open the cotton cloth, he was afraid of seeing something that would make him feel murderous.
Teng Yi walked to the incense burner with a heavy heart, and he looked in without hesitation, only to see a bloody mouth kept opening and closing.
"This is the seal?" Teng Yi's face was calm, he didn't believe that this thing alone could make Xiaojiu Village look like this.
"Let's see what's so weird about you." As he spoke, Teng Yi raised the axe in his hand high.