Chapter 24: The Temple
Chen Chi was startled, staggered back a few steps, and only after seeing that it was Grandma Ding Mu did he touch his chest and breathe a sigh of relief:
"What are you doing, grandma, you're scared to death."
"I'm here to give you a wedding feast, everyone is seated, and you are still standing here stupidly."
Chen Chichi glanced around at his surroundings with palpitations, and said:
"No, grandma, we're not hungry, we're getting ready to leave."
Listening to Chen Chichi's words, Li Huixi's brows furrowed briefly, it seems that if he doesn't find out about this Fang Xue or Ding Mu, he will definitely not be able to leave this world, and there are still many secrets to be discovered in this village.
"Grandma, what else hasn't happened to this wedding banquet? Won't the bride and groom come out to toast? ”
If what Chen Chichi saw was true, then there would definitely be a problem in the toasting session, Li Huixi thought so, and said to Grandma Ding Mu.
"Oh, it's early, or I won't let you go so early, toast...... You see, the bride can't come out? ”
Several people were a little puzzled when they heard this, the fox and Li Huixi believed Chen Chichi 100%, and Chen Chichi was also convinced of what he saw.
The three of them looked for prestige, and the bride actually walked out of the house, but her head was still covered and her face could not be seen clearly.
"How is it possible, she was so stiff just now, and she still has ...... on her face"
Chen Chichi was very puzzled, still insisting on her position, and she could hear in her tone that she was very eager for Fox and Li Huixi to continue to believe in her.
"Assuming you're not mistaken, then this bride must be a fake."
There is no need for Chen Chi to doubt that Li Huixi has always been on her side, and he also firmly believes in her judgment.
The fox observed the bride's movements:
"Let's say she's a living person, her movements are too stiff, like a marionette, but can a dead man move?"
After listening to the fox's words, the remaining two also looked at the bride, and the words spoken during the toast were all spoken by the groom, and the bride never said a word from beginning to end.
Not only that, but the bride's pouring is machine-like, simple and repetitive, and even the amount of wine poured is exactly the same, unlike the precision that humans can achieve.
"By the way, just now Grandma Ding Mu said that it's still early, is there other links in the back, and you can also observe this bride?"
Chen Chichi suddenly interjected.
It happened that some people at the banquet had already finished eating one after another, and went to the next ceremony venue in advance. The three of them also took advantage of no one to find out and quietly followed behind the team.
But the three of them followed them farther and farther, and slowly they all got out of the confines of the village, and through the dense forest, a very magnificent temple came into view.
The walls of the temple are rich in color, but compared to the brightness of modern cities, the colors here are more quaint and precipitated by time.
The temple is surrounded by ancient trees, with huge branches that extend to the windows, and even if you jump out of the windows, you will be firmly caught by the trees, the tallest of which is a full ten meters above the ground.
If you don't see it with your own eyes, no one would believe that there is such a mysterious temple behind such a backward village.
Li Huixi and the three of them were also amazed by the scenery here, and before the large army in the village rushed over, the three of them broke into the temple first.
There were so many trees around that the three of them entered the temple by climbing the trees instead of going through the main entrance like the others.
The inside was very large, and the three of them looked around, but they didn't expect that in such a big place, they didn't see a single monk, but the entire monastery was spotless, as if it had life of its own.
Directly in front of the temple is the main hall of the temple, with more colorful patterns and colors on the walls than other buildings, and sunlight shines through the windows hanging high on the wall and hits the statue of the deity in the center.
It is said that it is a statue of a god, but it really does not have a "human appearance", it is just a carving in the shape of a cylinder, and from the perspective of workmanship, it is not at the same level as the buildings along the way, and no one can imagine that such a thing is enshrined in the most central position.
"What kind of god is this?"
"I guess it's the patron saint here."
"It's kind of ...... Ugly. ”
Chen's sluggish Geng Zhi made the other two laugh, after all, none of them were villagers here, and they had never believed in ghosts and gods.
The sound of gongs, drums and firecrackers followed, and the three of them knew that the marriage brigade was coming.
In order to find out what happened to the bride, the three of them knew that they could no longer follow the villagers who were watching the excitement, and they should find some special angles.
The chaotic voices were getting closer and closer, and the three of them didn't know where to hide, Chen Chichi wanted to hide behind the statue, but this position was too easy to expose, and the main hall was too empty, so there was really no place for the three of them to hide.
Everyone outside stopped in front of the main hall door, and then fell silent, only then someone shouted:
"The last step is to ask the bride and groom to obtain God's will. Everyone was waiting outside the door. ”
The footsteps of the bride and groom are getting closer and closer, and the tension between the three of them has also piled up to the peak, even if no one knows their purpose, they will definitely be blamed by the villagers for destroying the most important ceremony of their marriage, and it is not clear that there is any ancient lynching.
The bride and groom pushed open the door, and the main hall was still empty.
As soon as the door behind her closed, the bride collapsed to the ground like a robot that had lost its battery.
The bridegroom, on the other hand, crept up to the idol and walked around behind it, as if he was afraid of waking up to something, and climbed to the head of the idol without making a sound, and carefully opened the head of the idol.
Li Huixi and the three of them were already climbing trees at the moment, squatting on the beams of the main hall, which was very high and wide, and no one noticed that there were three girls on their heads.
Chen Chichi whispered to the two of them:
"So that statue is used to hold people?"
Li Huixi's expression was solemn, and he made a "shhh
"Shhhhh
The bridegroom also writhed heavily on the idol, and it was not an easy task for his blessed body to get into the idol.
When the body was completely immersed in the idol, the groom finally let go of the head of the idol that could be taken off with relief.
With the violent sound of the stones clashing, the bridegroom had completely shut himself up in the idol.
When the three of them were still wondering what the groom was doing, there was a change in the bride's place at the entrance of the main hall.
I saw that the bride was squirming like a leech, struggling to stand up, her head was thrown back and forth, and Chen Chichi could even hear the sound of bones breaking.
After several struggles, the bride's belly swelled at a visible rate, and the bones in the cervical vertebrae seemed to have been broken, leaving only the flesh outside the neck to remain delicately connected.
This inhuman action frightened Chen Chichi's eyes, and he didn't dare to take his eyes off the bride's body for a second, for fear that if she neglected for a moment, she would fly towards her.
The belly was swollen to a certain extent, and finally it stopped bulging, and now the bride's belly was like a pregnant wife, or the kind that was about to give birth.
The skin on her belly was cracked, and the three of them were able to observe the state of the bride's skin: there was no blood of a living person at all, the skin on her stomach was completely black and purple, and there were corpse spots that Chen Chichi had mentioned.
The hijab on her head had long been thrown off, and the bride was not a living person at all, and her face was bulging with black-purple veins that had burst out, and there was ...... The corpse spots and pupils have long since disappeared.
As if she knew that there was someone in this place, the bride began to prop herself on all fours, with her back to the ground, and crawled in all directions, her rotten nose even sniffing, and went around the idol.
The speed of climbing is getting faster and faster, and the red clothes on his body have already been thrown to pieces, and the high bulging belly is facing the three people on the head, and a clearly visible human face on the belly is changing its expression with the movement of the bride.
After Chen Chi Chi saw it, he not only felt frightened, but also felt a little familiar, so he recalled his experience and touched his stomach, and the ravine was really there.