Chapter 21: Heavenly Mansion
The ancient well at the head of the village is extremely primitive, the bricks have been mottled, because it has not been used for a long time, there are a lot of mushrooms growing on the wooden reels above this ancient well, and you can hear a very harsh creaking sound when you pull it at will.
Zhang Wei held the compass at the wellhead for a long time, and then buried his head in the wellhead for a long time, raised his head and frowned.
"What's so nice about a well?" Cheng Ru also looked at the bottom of the well, remembering the scene when the ghost mother leaned out from the bottom of the well and put her hand on her shoulder, she felt panicked, and hurriedly didn't dare to look at it again, "Let's go back to sleep, after fighting for so long, aren't you tired?"
"Then you just go to sleep, don't get in the way of Lao Tzu here!" Jiang Lili scolded, and then turned his head to look at Zhang Wei, "What's the matter?"
Zhang Wei nodded solemnly and shook his head again.
"What do you mean by that?" Cheng Ru asked Jiang Lili's heart, "You either nod or shake your head, what kind of trouble are you nodding and shaking your head?"
"I'm not sure," Zhang Wei said, "I need to go to the bottom of the well to find out." ”
Cheng Ru was frightened by this, "Do you want to go down? You don't have bad brains? This is a well, who knows how deep it is? Maybe there is water in it, what if it is accidentally washed away?"
Zhang Wei turned his head and smiled at Cheng Ru, "Then find a way to see if there is water in it?"
"What can be done?" Cheng Ru looked inside again, "Where can I see this black mush?"
Zhang Wei lit a torch and threw it at the bottom of the well. A moment later, the sound of torches touching the bottom of the well was heard, and the flames were not extinguished.
"No water. Zhang Wei said.
Jiang Lili turned his head to look at Cheng Ru and sneered: "Didn't you say that you read a lot of books? It seems that you are not much different from those rotten Confucians, they are all dead readers!"
Cheng Ru's face was flushed, and he quibbled: "How can it be? I just thought of this method! Wouldn't it be better to throw a stone directly into it without throwing a torch into it? The sound of a stone hitting the water is different from that of hitting the ground! You see, this is much less effort?"
"Then how do you know what's going on inside?" Zhang Wei asked rhetorically, "Besides, if there are bats or something like that in this dry well, the flames can scare them a little farther away!"
Cheng Ru had nothing to say.
Jiang Lili was a little impatient, "You don't explain to him less, this thing is an elm head, I'm afraid that another monk knocks on the wooden fish, and he knocks his own head, so it becomes like this!"
"Knocking on the wooden fish?" Zhang Wei didn't know why.
Cheng Ru covered his head with one hand, "Jiang Lili, what are you talking about? Can you reveal a little less of my secret? One day I will tell you all the you used to do!"
"What's the?" Zhang Wei was interested.
Jiang Lili snorted coldly: "What kind of do you care about him? Can't go down? Lao Tzu will leave first!"
As he spoke, Jiang Lili slowly slid down the grass rope hanging down to the bottom of the well on the wooden reel at the mouth of the well.
"Is it all wrong?" Zhang Wei shouted towards the bottom of the well.
"It's here!"
The echo at the bottom of the well is extremely heavy.
"Nothing dangerous, right?"
"It's not dangerous, it's just that there are some things you have to look at!"
Zhang Wei wondered slightly, and he didn't bother to ask again, so he turned his head and said to Cheng Ru, "When I come up, you will tell me about Jiang Lili's" and then jumped directly at the well!
"Hey, you've all jumped down, and no one is outside to accompany me?" Cheng Ru looked at the dark night with some palpitations.
"Go back by yourself, Wu Zhou's ghost doctor is still in the house, and he shouldn't be in danger!" Zhang Wei replied.
Cheng Ru thought about it for a while, and always felt that following that Wu Zhou in a room should be more infiltrating, who knows what a ghost thinks? What if he swallows himself in one bite?
Cheng Ru hurriedly said: "Don't go first, I'll come down too!"
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Ru hurriedly grabbed the straw rope and slid down carefully, but who knew that when he was just halfway there, the straw rope suddenly broke, and the whole person screamed and fell towards the bottom of the well!
With a fluttering sound, Cheng Ru fell to the ground in a daze, and he didn't catch his breath for a long time.
Jiang Lili squatted next to Cheng Ruyi with a torch and sneered: "If you don't go back, you have to come down, you will know the hardship at this time!"
Cheng Ru cried and mourned: "You are so unrighteous, you don't catch me when you see me falling, it's just that I don't take a hand when I fall to the ground, I just squat on the ground and laugh, yes, yes... Oh, what the hell is this, I'm panicking!"
Cheng Ru put his hand under his buttocks, took out something the size of a head, and took it out with the torch in Jiang Lili's hand to see that it was a skull!
Cheng Ru screamed in fright, jumped up, and only felt that he stepped on something with a click, and lowered his head slightly in disbelief, and saw that his feet were full of bones!
Cheng Ru was so frightened that he just felt that staying in a room with Wu Zhou's ghost didn't seem to be a bad thing!
Zhang Wei sighed after walking around the neighborhood, "Presumably these bones are the remains of the people of this village, when I originally heard that a village was plagued by a ghost, I just thought that the people in the village were scared away by the ghost, and it was just a rumor from others." After all, killing a person from a village will still add a lot of hidden dangers to the foundation of ghost cultivation! I didn't expect that this would be true, and this ghost mother would do so much evil!"
After hearing this, Cheng Ruye's face also had a slight trace of sadness, and he also sighed, "Amitabha, I hope that you will be reborn as soon as possible, so as not to suffer from reincarnation." ”
Jiang Lili glanced at Cheng Ru with strange eyes, Cheng Ru scratched his head, and quietly made a boo at Jiang Lili.
And Zhang Wei didn't notice Cheng Ruye's abnormality, and said: "I found a passage over there, let's take a look, maybe we can find some secrets." ”
Jiang Lili nodded, turned around and walked forward in stride.
"Hey, hey, hey, be light!" Cheng Ru shouted.
Jiang Lili opened his mouth, turned to see Cheng Ru was about to be sarcastic, but looked at the sadness on his face, and said, "I know, you can follow quickly." ”
Cheng Ru nodded, carefully walking through the bones.
The passage at the bottom of the well, in the northwest range, was a small hole that could only be walked through by one person, and the mouth of the hole was overgrown with strange-shaped plants, bearing small red and purple-black fruits.
"Don't touch these things," Zhang Wei reminded, "These plants are called ghost face flowers, which are plants that absorb a lot of yin and ghost qi to grow. This plant has some special characteristics, it bears fruit first and then blooms, and the flower color is blood red after flowering, like a human face, so it is called a ghost face flower. This flower is poisonous, although it cannot be killed, it can cause itching all over the body, and it is not good at all for a few months, and it can be regarded as troublesome. If it blooms, it will release a kind of mist, which can capture people's souls!"
Cheng Ru scratched his head after hearing this flower, "There are such ghost-faced flowers here, how can we go?" Why don't you go back and rest, and wait until tomorrow to come back to Cheng?"
"It's just that you have a lot of problems!" Jiang Lili took out the Tiger Soul Knife and cut the ghost face flower in front of him into several pieces, and then said to Cheng Ru, "Isn't this it?"
And he went inside.
There is not much abnormality at the front of the cave except for the ghost face flower, but the further you go inside, the more you feel that the environment inside is very deep. After walking through the incense stick for about a while, I found that the cave was spacious, and the surrounding area was slightly glowing with fluorescent green, and there was a slight layer of mist on the ground covering the instep of the foot, like a vine sticking out of the underworld, spreading in all directions.
After walking a little further inside, the incense stick was low, and in front of me was a wall, and the ghost flowers in front of the wall were growing extremely luxuriantly. Among the ghost-faced flowers, there is an incense burner, and there are a few incense sticks burning on the incense burner, but there is a wisp of blood in the green smoke that floats from the burning incense.
"This
The incense is famous as blood fat incense, which is made from the blood lipids of the living, and is specially used for the cultivation of ghosts who have embarked on crooked paths, presumably the ghost mother is cultivating here!" Zhang Wei said.
"Could it be that hundreds of people in this village have been made into this kind of incense?" Cheng Ru was surprised.
Zhang Wei nodded.
Cheng Ru opened his mouth, just sighed, and said slightly, how sad.
Jiang Lili pinched the incense and looked at it, a wisp of incense gas penetrated into his nostrils, he only felt stunned, it seemed that his mind was much clearer, and there was a sense of hunger and thirst boiling in his heart!
At this time, Zhang Wei stopped in front of a wall, and looked at the cumbersome marks left on the wall for a long time.
"What's wrong?"
Zhang Wei nodded and said: "No wonder the yin qi here is so strong, looking at the marks left on this wall, this place must have been originally a yin cave." I just don't know when this will run away from other places. ”
Jiang Lili raised his head violently, "You mean the yin hole?"
"Well, what's wrong?"
"Wu Zhou once said that he went to the ghost town with his family a few years ago, and his family also told him that the reason for the appearance of this ghost town is the reason for the Yin Cave!"
"Really?"
"Naturally!"
Zhang Wei hurriedly took out the compass and read the words.
Cheng Ru was a little puzzled, "You mean that the ghost town was originally located here?" but there is a small village outside, and that village doesn't seem to have been established in the past few years, at least half a hundred years old. Didn't you just say that Wu Zhou had been here a few years ago, and the Yin Cave hadn't left at that time, had he?"
After talking for a long time, Cheng Ruru didn't know what he was talking about, so he looked up and said, "Do you know what I mean?"
Zhang Wei took the compass, "I understand what you mean, it's nothing more than how can this ghost town coexist with this village?"
Cheng Ru said: "That's right. ”
Zhang Wei explained: "In fact, there is no contradiction, this ghost city is virtual, the village is real, although they exist in the same place, they have nothing to do with each other. Let's put it this way, just like the mass grave summoned by the ghost mother just now, this is still a village in your eyes. ”
"But even so, wouldn't there be any ghosts coming from the ghost town to harm people? I had never heard of this village being plagued by ghosts before. ”
Zhang Wei was also a little puzzled, "This is also, maybe it's because there are big ghosts in this ghost town who restrict the actions of ghosts in the ghost city, after all, ghosts go to the underworld is the right way." This can only be a conjecture, and the final result will not be known until the ghost town. ”
"Do you know where the ghost town is?" Jiang Lili asked.
Zhang Wei smiled, "Didn't you say that the ghost town is located on the top of the Yin Cave?"
"What do you mean?"
"I found out where my was going. ”
"Where?" Jiang Lili hurriedly asked.
"Northwest. ”
"Northwest?" Jiang Lili frowned, "Do you have a map?"
"I brought it," Zhang Wei pulled out a tattered map from his bosom and unfolded it on the ground.
"It's a little far to the northwest, there are so many towns here, but which one is it?" Jiang Lili pointed to the map and said: "Look at it, there are Jiming Town, Luoxiang, Renqiu, Hejian, the national capital of South Korea is still on this line, so much, where are you going?"
Zhang Wei said in a deep voice: "This yin cave is far away from the terrain, but it seems that someone is intervening here, therefore... ”
"What do you mean?" Cheng Ru looked up after thinking for a long time and said, "To be able to intervene in this naturally cultivated yin acupoint trend, there must be a powerful act, and there must be a premeditation?"
"That's right, so where will there be people in Korea who have this kind of ability?" Zhang Wei squinted slightly.
Jiang Li's eyes lit up, and he pointed to an extremely conspicuous sign on the map and said: "The national capital of South Korea, Tianfu!"