Chapter 16: The Strange Twin Figures
"Lao Tzu has finally found you, come back with me!" When I saw the big cow, I was so angry that I searched for four hours.
When I found him, he was sitting halfway up a mountain, dumbfounded, with a row of dilapidated abandoned houses behind him, surrounded by wild grass, which grew a meter high to my waist.
"Brother dog, I knew you would definitely come, hehehe." Da Niu still looks shameless and licking and smiling.
"If I knew you weren't afraid of death, I wouldn't have saved you last night." Seeing his face, his fists were really clenched, and he was afraid that he would not be able to control and give him two punches, "Let me ask you again, can you leave?" You really don't know what this place is? If you don't go, I'm gone! ”
After saying that, I turned my head and walked back, and the big bull hurriedly caught up with me and grabbed me.
"Brother Dog, aren't you curious about where those missing children went? Don't you wonder if the legend is true or not? Don't you wonder if there is really a saying that there is a living person to continue his life? "The three questions of the soul of the big cow hit my heart directly, who is not curious, must be curious, but I am more precious than curious.
Seeing that I froze, Da Niu didn't answer him, and continued: "Just once, I promise that in just one hour, we will go in and see, if there is anything wrong, we will leave immediately, absolutely without delay!" ”
People always pay for their curiosity, and I am no exception, and when the big bull saw that I was a little shaken, he pulled me directly out of one of the houses.
"I've been inquiring all afternoon, and this is it." Da Niu pointed to a room directly opposite.
I looked up, it was a house made of adobe bricks, uninhabited for a long time, the creeper had climbed all over the wall, the strange thing was that the creeper had dried up and shriveled, thinking that it would slide off if I touched it lightly, but I didn't expect it to tear it off with great force.
The shriveled creeper is like a vein in a wall, and it exists to feed the house. The dense creepers made it impossible to see the house as it was, and I could only distinguish the direction of the house from the rotten wooden door.
It can be seen that the owner of the house before the abandonment has just painted the wooden door with red paint, and the undried red paint slides down the wooden door, like coagulated blood. I don't know if it's a psychological effect or what, but I also seem to smell the faint smell of blood in the air.
Not only is the black pen on the door full of all kinds of vicious words, but even the chicken feathers and stains in front of the door can show the resentment of the surrounding villagers towards the owner.
I gently slammed the door, and before I could squeak hard, the door opened inside, as if inviting us in. The musty smell of a house that has been uninhabited for a long time fills every corner of the house, and the furniture and even demeanor in the hall are all spared and fall to the ground, and there is not even a place to put your feet.
The spirit card of worship is upside down on the ground, look at this tablet is some years, the wood has cracked, I don't know whether it is a natural formation or external force, the crack is black, you can smell the smell of rot when you smell it lightly on the side of your nose, slight but pungent.
Turning over the tablet, I couldn't see through which path the old man was on for a while, it was not a certain ancestor who was enshrined, nor a certain immortal, if I guessed correctly, it was actually a double ghost statue of half Kuman Tong and half King Yama.
I took the tablet and looked at it carefully, and if I guessed correctly, the ghost image was painted with cinnabar, and it faintly smelled of rust. The two ghosts were painted with charms, and I recognized one of them, the Taoist Sealing Charm. But there is another one that I have never seen before.
I know there must be something wrong with this tablet, but it's not strange. Until I noticed that the eyes of the two ghosts were shining, like the eyes of a living person, and just as I was about to take a closer look, I could actually meet their eyes, and in an instant it seemed that a magical force pulled me into the mirror, and the shadows of one child after another flashed in front of my eyes, and I could even hear the sound of children playing in my ears.
Although I was pulled into the mirror, fortunately my mind was still under control, and I quickly recited the meditation mantra "The sky is not shocked, there is nothing, the mind is relieved, and there is no soul". The mirror image slowly disappeared, and the child's voice in my ears became farther and farther away.
The twin ghost statues seem to have some kind of magical power, and people can't help but want to look into his eyes. I resisted the desire in my heart, forcibly looked away, and then turned the tablet over and put it back in its place.
The tablet suddenly emitted a light to startle me, take a closer look, the light is from top to bottom, look up and see the moon at home, just the so-called moonlight in the house, people panic. The black night seems to be cloudless, the moon hangs lonely directly above, a little closer can be seen, the endless black is the dark clouds completely block the sky, even the moon light can not penetrate, the moon light is like the moon wrapped in white veil makes people unable to see through its true face, mysterious and cold.